Schelte Adams à Bolswert After Peter Paul Rubens, The Holy Family With Saint Elizabeth & John The Baptist With A Goldfinch

Schelte Adams à Bolswert After Peter Paul Rubens, The Holy Family With Saint Elizabeth & John The Baptist With A GoldfinchThis early 17th century engraving by Schelte Adams Bolswert (1586 1659) is after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640). Its remarkable that Bolswert produced this engraving during Rubens lifetime. Its around 400 years old. He collaborated with the great Flemish master on numerous occasions, with Rubens casting an eye over his work occasionally retouching his proof designs. Here, we see Mary nursing the infant Christ while her relative Elizabeth

This fine mid-19th-century oil on panel by Dutch artist Pieter Caspar Christ (1822-1888) depicts a woodland landscape with distant cottages under a cloudy sky

“Classic form in free execution makes this exhibition a tribute

Year of creation 1916

735 achieved for ‘Drève à Overyssche’ at an auction in Belgium in 1996

which creates a diagonal line and draws the eye towards the yonder - a dense horizon with distant hills

Bastin believed that black was the “queen of all colours” and this is a good example of his philosophy

woven in dark purple velvet

Its condition is fair with a little foxing

The painting was returned to Baker in December 1836 and in 1847

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 25” x 28” / 64cm x 72cmYear of creation: c

In his early thirties

One such report references his down-to-earth personality