LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

33.50 in. (85.10 cm.) (height) by 42.91 in. (109.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Inventory and Appraisement of the..Paintings & Prints.of Philip Bowes Broke Esqr deceased of Nacton in Suffolk taken September 1801, under Paintings Landcape.no.11. M.A. Campidoglio and No. 12 Ditto; Inventory of Pictures. Broke Hall, Nacton, May 1875, Ground Floor, Dining Room, North Side, nos. 3 and 4, 'Campidoglio - Fruit piece' ; Broke Hall, Nacton, Suffolk. Inventory of Household Furniture.., December 1896, p. 11, among oil paintings in the Dining Room, 'Fruit and flowers, 32 by 42 inches x 2'; Michael S. Smith, Houses, New York, 2008, pp. 45-6, 135 & 143.

Provenance:

Probably acquired in Italy in 1700-02 by Martin Bowes, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; and by descent to Anne, wife of Philip Bowes Broke (d.1801) of Broke Hall, Nacton, Suffolk; and by inheritance to Sir George Broke-Middleton, 3rd Bt. (1812-87), Broke Hall and Shrubland Park, Suffolk; and by inheritance to Jane Anne Acton Vere Broke and James St. Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843-1937); and thence by descent. Property of De Saumarez Family, removed from Shrubland Park; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2006, lot 251.