Lot 5: Carel Beschey Antwerp 1706 - 1770 , a summer landscape with elegant travellers, a horse-drawn wagon, near a village with peasants dancing around a may-tree; a winter landscape with travellers and a horse-drawn cart, near a village with figures

a pair, both signed, the former lower right, the latter lower centre: c. Bescheij both oil on panel Quantity: 2

measurements note each: approx. 29 by 38.4 cm.

Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 9 December 1986, lot 48 (only the winter landscape).

THE PROPERTY OF A BELGIAN LADY

The composition of the Summer landscape, is derived from a work by Josef van Bredael, signed and dated 1725, on copper, which was sold London, Christie's, 26 March 1971, lot 55 (see K. Ertz, Josef van Bredael 1688-1739, Lingen 2006, pp. 7, 18, 56 and 171, cat. no. E87, reproduced fig. 13).