Gaspar Pieter Verbrugghen the Younger (Antwerp 1664-1730)


A lady standing beside a sculpted stone urn adorned with roses, tulips, crown imperials, convolvulus and other flowers oil on canvas114 x 148.5cm (44 7/8 x 58 7/16in).
|ProvenancePrivate Collection, Belgium, acquired by the 1960s (as by Jan Baptist Bosschaert) and thence by descent We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution of the still life in the present composition to Verbrugghen. Verbrugghen was known to collaborate with the Antwerp artist, Peeter-Frans Bailliu (1644-1727), who painted the vases, figures and grisailles in some of his compositions; Verbrugghen also collaborated with the figure painters, Jacob Leyssens (1661-1710), Mattheus Terwesten (1670-1757) and Peeter Ykens (1648-1695), the latter having been suggested for the present work, which would further suggest a date of the first half of the 1690s for this work.