Richmond Palace

Wenceslaus, (After) Hollar

Oil on canvas

c.1675-1710
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Other
    City: other locations abroad
  • About the artist
    Wenceslaus Hollar, draughtsman and etcher, was born in Prague; the son of an official. It is thought he had no formal training. He left Prague at 20 and resided in Stuttgart (1627-29), Strasbourg (1629-30), Frankfurt-am-Main (1631) and Cologne (1632-38), where Abraham Hogenberg published his portraits and views of Prague and the Dutch coast. Thomas Howard, Second Earl of Arundel, met Hollar in Cologne and returned to London with him in 1636. He produced prints of works in the Earl’s collection and married a servant to the Earl’s wife. He moved to Antwerp in 1644, returning in 1651/52. In 1669 he was the official artist on an embassy to Tangier with Lord Henry Howard, which resulted in two series of etchings. He died in Westminster aged 70.
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  • Details
    Title
    Richmond Palace
    Date
    c.1675-1710
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 74.00 cm, width: 132.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Christie's, 24 February 1953
    Provenance
    Collection of Major-General de la Fosse; collection of ‘Groom’; by whom sold through Christie’s, London, on 20 February 1953 (Lot 124), as ‘A view from Richmond Palace with a sportsman in the foreground’ by D. Vinckeboons; from which sale purchased by Leggatt Bros. or Appleby Bros. on behalf of the Ministry of Works
    GAC number
    2086