
Italian Landscape with Travelers
Jan Both · c. 1650
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably William Beckford, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire [according to the 1815 manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Langley Park, Norfolk, cited below]. Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor (died 1827), Langley Park, Norfolk, by 1815 [no. 8 in the 1815 manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Langley Park, Norfolk, a photocopy kindly supplied by Sir Christopher Proctor-Beauchamp is in the curatorial file]; by descent to Sir Christopher Proctor-Beauchamp. Douwes Fine Art Ltd, London and Amsterdam, by 1984 [included in their catalogue, 1984, no. 8]; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- J. P. Neale, View of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. 6, London, 1823, [p. 74].
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1986-1987, Chicago, 1987, pp. 40-41, ill., 56.
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