Lot 28: CORNELIS DE BRYER

PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
ACTIVE IN ANTWERP CIRCA 1634 - 1660
A STILL LIFE OF ASSORTED FRUITS IN A BASKET, A ROEMER AND APPLES ATOP A BLUE JEWELLERY CASKET, TOGETHER WITH FRAISES-DE-BOIS IN A BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN BOWL, A LOBSTER, CRAB, NUTS, OYSTERS AND A PEELED LEMON ON PEWTER PLATES, ALL ARRANGED ON A TABLE DRAPED WITH WHITE AND PURPLE CLOTHS
oil on canvas
113 by 156.3 cm.; 44 1/2 by 61 1/2 in.

Inventory of all the Household Furniture...Paintings, Prints...at Charterhouse Hinton, Somerset, entailed by the Will of the late Thomas Jones Esquire, 1848, p. 6 (as an unknown artist).

Thomas Jones (d.1848), The Charterhouse, Hinton, Somerset;
Thence by descent to the present owner.