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| Title | Landscape | |
| Collection | Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport | |
| Artist | Attributed to manner of Vroom, Cornelis, the younger (Dutch painter and draftsman, ca. 1591-1661) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1600 | |
| Date Latest | about 1700 | |
| Description | The Vrooms were a well known Dutch family of artists. Cornelis Hendricksz. Vroom the elder was a sculptor and his son Hendrick Vroom initiated the Dutch seventeenth-century tradition of marine painting. Hendrick's three sons, Cornelis Vroom the Younger, Fredrick Vroom II and Jacob Vroom I, all became painters as did his grandson Jacob Vroom II. Cornelis Vroom the Younger was the first family member to make the transition from marine painting to landscape. | |
| Current Accession Number | 1929.435 | |
| Subject | landscape | |
| Measurements | 9.5 x 9.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on metal (copper) | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by J. H. Bell 1929. | |
| Notes | Notes taken from Margarita Russel, 'Vroom', Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2 March 2006, http://www.groveart.com/. | |
| Rights Owner | Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Sefton M.B.C. Leisure Services | |
| Author | Lisa Howard | |