10th Jun, 2026 12:00
Live Sale: Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture June 2026
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ATTRIBUTED TO MOSES VAN UYTTENBROECK (DUTCH C.1595-BEFORE 1647)
A BARD WITH CATTLE AND SHEEP IN AN ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE
oil on panel
34 x 40cm; 13 1/2 x 15 3/4in
54.5 x 60cm; 21 1/2 x 23 3/4in (framed)
Property formerly in the Collection of Paul Wertheimer, Bielefeld, Westphalia
Provenance
Paul Wertheimer, Bielefeld, Westphalia (acquired circa 1930)
Thence by descent to the present owner, grandson of the above
In 1926 the Munich based specialist Hugo Helbing wrote in support of the present work's attribution to van Uyttenbroeck, considering it to be 'characteristic' and 'genuine'.
After living and working in Italy as a young man in the early part of the 17th century, van Uyttenbroeck spent the majority of his life in The Hague. An accomplished court painter, he was adept at both portraiture and landscape painting, the latter being typically Italianate in style and depicting both religious and mythological subjects. Rather more rumbustuous paintings by van Uyttenbroeck of peasants carousing are in the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague (Landscape with Shepherds of 1626) and in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (Bacchanale of 1627). Van Uyttenbroeck took inspiration from Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) as well as the work of Jacob Symonsz Pynas (1592/93-1650) and Cornelis van Poelenburch (c.1594-1667).
A BARD WITH CATTLE AND SHEEP IN AN ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE
oil on panel
34 x 40cm; 13 1/2 x 15 3/4in
54.5 x 60cm; 21 1/2 x 23 3/4in (framed)
Property formerly in the Collection of Paul Wertheimer, Bielefeld, Westphalia
Provenance
Paul Wertheimer, Bielefeld, Westphalia (acquired circa 1930)
Thence by descent to the present owner, grandson of the above
In 1926 the Munich based specialist Hugo Helbing wrote in support of the present work's attribution to van Uyttenbroeck, considering it to be 'characteristic' and 'genuine'.
After living and working in Italy as a young man in the early part of the 17th century, van Uyttenbroeck spent the majority of his life in The Hague. An accomplished court painter, he was adept at both portraiture and landscape painting, the latter being typically Italianate in style and depicting both religious and mythological subjects. Rather more rumbustuous paintings by van Uyttenbroeck of peasants carousing are in the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague (Landscape with Shepherds of 1626) and in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (Bacchanale of 1627). Van Uyttenbroeck took inspiration from Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) as well as the work of Jacob Symonsz Pynas (1592/93-1650) and Cornelis van Poelenburch (c.1594-1667).
Auction: Live Sale: Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture June 2026, 10th Jun, 2026
L.S. Lowry’s expansive Figures on a Beach (lot 39) is the lead painting in our June sale that ranges from the Old Masters to Modern British and post-War & Contemporary. Many of the works have been in the same collection for decades; a number have fascinating stories attached.
The first seven lots of Dutch and Flemish Old Masters are from the collection of Paul Wertheimer. Acquired almost hundred years ago, Wertheimer brought the works to England when he fled Germany in 1938. Leading the group are 17th century panels attributed to Moses van Uyttenbroeck and Lucas van Uden, the latter a reduced copy of Rubens’ original in the Royal Collection (lots 1 & 4). Another early panel, a portrait of Cornelisz. Van Beresteyn, is by a follower of Michiel Jansz. van Miereveld (lot 9).
Works by fellow artists and friends Augustus John and Edgar Augustus ‘Loben’ Slade (lots 20-25) feature John’s early portrait of Loben and five works on paper by the lesser known Slade, nephew of the founder of the Slade School of Art, one of which is a watercolour of Jessie McNeill, John’s model, muse and mistress.
Also in the sale are seven works by Australian artists, including Jeffrey Smart, William Blamire Young and Leonard French, all from a private collection in Surrey (lots 30-36), and ten paintings from a Cheshire Collection that features the work of Helen Bradley, Edouard Cortes and Marcel Dyf together with bracing coastal views by Campbell Archibald Mellon (lots 40-48).
A small and fascinating work on paper is by Paul Nash. It captures the view of Harry Rocks off Ballard Down from Nash's flat in Swanage where he was living in the mid-1930s and which he incorporated into his Surrealist work ahead of the major Surrealist exhibition in London of 1936 (lot 27).
Beside the Lowry beach scene, other post-War works include an important early sculpture by James Tower (lot 52), a leading sculptor-ceramicist of his generation. Other post-War abstract works include examples by Frank Avray Wilson, James Hull and Etienne Beothy (lots 50, 51, 55 & 57).
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