Landscape with Figures c.1695-1700
Oil on canvas | 149.4 x 134.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404750
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Van Edema was a pupil of Allart van Everdingen in Amsterdam before coming to England during the reign of Charles II. This is one of a group of four paintings by Edema in the collection (OM 434-7, 402471, 402472, 403931 and 404750), three of which are signed (and the fourth clearly one of a pair) and all of which are mentioned in the 1818 inventory of Kensington Palace. They can all be roughly dated to c. 1695-1700 and have the character and format of decorative overdoors. In comparison with other visiting landscapists of this era - Rousseau, Danckerts, Loten, De Hennin, Van Diest and so on - Edema conveys a much stronger sense of the damp and palpable stuff of nature - the branch, the leaf and the clod. This is perhaps something he learned from Everdingen.
This shows an estuary, cut in a mountainous landscape, with figures on a path in the foreground and occupied with their nets on the shore in the distance.Provenance
First recorded in Queen Caroline's Dressing Room at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 485)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
149.4 x 134.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
170.7 x 154.9 x 9.5 cm (frame, external)