VP4111

Salomon Van Ruisdael
(c. 1602 – 1670)

A River Landscape with a Ferry

On panel – 23 x 31 3/4 in, (58.4 x 80.6 cm)

Indistinctly signed, lower centre

Provenance:

• Possibly Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt
• (1714-1777)
• George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1736-1809)
• William Harcourt, 3rd and last Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1742/3-1830)
• Thence via the marriage of his great aunt, Martha (1715-1794) to
• George Vernon, later Venables-Vernon, 1st Lord Vernon, Baron of Kinderton (1709/10-1780)
• to their second son, Edward Venables-Vernon (1757-1847), created Vernon Harcourt by Royal licence on inheriting the Harcourt Estates in 1830
• George Granville Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay (1785-1861)
• Rev. William Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt (1789-1871)
• Edward William Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt (1825-1891)
• Aubrey Harcourt, of Nuneham Park and Stanton Harcourt (1852-1904):
• Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904)
• Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt and Baron Nuneham of Nuneham-Courtenay (1863-1922)
• William Edward Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt (1908-1979);
• Thence by descent to the previous owner

Literature:

• Description of Nuneham-Courtenay in the county of Oxford. 1797, p. 40, 'a landscape, with figures by Solomon Rysdael (sic)', in The Queen's dressing room[i]
• Description of Nuneham-Courtenay in the county of Oxford, 1806, p. 30, 'a landscape, by Solomon Rysdael (sic)', in The Queen's dressing room
• E.W. Harcourt, ed., The Harcourt Papers, 1880-1905, vol. 3, p. 266, '123. A landscape with water, by Van Goyen; a nice picture...’
• W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin1975, p. 135, no. 429