Lot 34: JAN VAN HUYSUM

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AMSTERDAM 1682 - 1749
A STILL LIFE WITH HYDRANGEA, CONVOLVULUS, POLYANTHUS, PEONIES, AURICULA, CARNATION, TULIPS, SNOWBALLS AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A GLASS VASE OVER A STONE LEDGE WITH A BLUBOTTLE TO THE LEFT AND A HORNET TO THE RIGHT
signed lower left: Jan Van Huysum fecit
oil on canvas
63.5 by 54 cm.; 25 by 21 1/4 in.

Amsterdam, Goudstikker Galleries, Het Stilleven, 18 February -26 March 1933, cat. no. 163.

Catalogus der Tentoonstelling "Het Stilleven", Goudstikker Galleries, 1933, unpaginated, cat. no. 163, reproduced plate no. 46;
M.H. Grant, Jan Van Huysum, 1682-1749, Leigh-on-Sea 1954, p. 32, cat. no. 224.

Captain Arthur Heywood Lonsdale, Shavington, Shropshire;
With A. Tooth & Sons, London;
Purchased from the above by the father-in-law of the present owner 3 April 1935;
Thence by descent.