LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.00 in. (60.96 cm.) (height) by 28.00 in. (71.12 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram lower right

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 85 (lent by E.W. Harcourt).

Literature:

available on website

Provenance:

Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt ( 1714-1777), by whom purchased, 16 April 1756, for 10 gns. ('A landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael; very good example of the master. This picture was bought by Lord Harcourt, April 16, 1756 [£]10, 10s', see The Harcourt Papers, under Literature); George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1736-1809); William Harcourt, 3rd and last Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1742/3-1830); Thence via the marriage of his great aunt, Martha (1715-1794) to George Vernon, later Venables-Vernon, 1st Lord Vernon, Baron of Kinderton (1709/10-1780), to their second son, Edward Venables-Vernon (1757-1847), created Vernon Harcourt by Royal licence on inheriting the Harcourt Estates in 1830; George Granville Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay (1785-1861); Rev. William Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt (1789-1871); Edward William Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt (1825-1891); Aubrey Harcourt, of Nuneham Park and Stanton Harcourt (1852-1904): Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904); Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt and Baron Nuneham of Nuneham-Courtenay (1863-1922); William Edward Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt (1908-1979); Thence by descent.