Lot 32*
Jan Baptist Fornenburgh(Antwerp 1585-1648/9 The Hague)A still life of lilies, tulips, roses and other flowers in a glass vase on a table-top with a lizard and a butterfly
6 December 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£25,000 - £35,000
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Jan Baptist Fornenburgh (Antwerp 1585-1648/9 The Hague)
A still life of lilies, tulips, roses and other flowers in a glass vase on a table-top with a lizard and a butterfly
signed with initials 'JB F.' (the J and B in ligature, on table edge, lower centre)
oil on panel
108.8 x 66.3cm (42 13/16 x 26 1/8in).
signed with initials 'JB F.' (the J and B in ligature, on table edge, lower centre)
oil on panel
108.8 x 66.3cm (42 13/16 x 26 1/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Leo Spik, Berlin, 3 December 2009, lot 271
Jan Baptist Fornenburgh was born in Antwerp but was first noted in Amsterdam, acting as an art expert in 1621. He was then recorded as working in The Hague in 1625 where he remained until his death there in 1648 or 1649. His early work reveals the influence of the elder artist Jacques de Gheyn the Younger (Antwerp 1565-1629 The Hague), a fellow resident of The Hague. He was known not only for his flower pieces in oil but also for his works in watercolour on vellum. Often repeating certain elements in his compositions, the lizard in the present still life, for example, also appears in one of a pair of his watercolours now in the Landesmuseum, Munster (see I. Bergström, 'Van Fornenburgh's Drawings of Flower-pieces', Tableau Sept./Oct. 1983, p. 65-66).
