VP4381

Jan Miense Molenaer
(1610 – Haarlem – 1668)

A Tavern Interior with a Bagpiper and Dancers

On panel – 22 1/4 x 28 3/4 in, (56.4 x 73.4 cm)

Signed lower right, JMolenaer

Provenance:

• Sir Timothy Waldo (1711-1780), Hever Castle, Kent, and Clapham, London
• By descent to his daughter Jane Waldo (born 1746), Clapham, who died without issue
• By descent to her cousin Edmund Wakefield Mead Waldo (1792-1858), 1 June 1830
• By descent to Edmund Waldo Mead Waldo (born 1829)
• By descent to Edmund Gustavius Meade-Waldo (1865-1934), Hever Castle until 1903 and thereafter at Stonewall Park, Edenbridge
• By descent to the grandfather of the previous owner

Literature:

• A catalogue of pictures in the Possession of Miss [Jane] Waldo, Clapham, 18th century, no. 7