Lot 81: GILLIS DE WINTER LEEUWARDEN CIRCA 1650 - 1720 AMSTERDAM

FIGURES AND CHILDREN GATHERED AROUND A TRAVELLING SIDESHOW

FIGURES AND CHILDREN GATHERED AROUND A TRAVELLING SIDESHOW

measurements note
29.2 by 38.8 cm.

signed lower left on the barrel: Gd (in compendium) Winter

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 16 December 1998, lot 65, where acquired by the present owner (as by Richard Brakenburgh).

NOTE

Gillis de Winter was a pupil of Richard Brakenburgh (1650-1702), who painted genre and landscape scenes; his work is often mistaken for that of Brakenburgh.