Jan Wijnants (Haarlem circa 1635-1684 Amsterdam) A hunting party resting in a landscape before a...

Jan Wijnants (Haarlem circa 1635-1684 Amsterdam) A hunting party resting in a landscape before a blasted tree signed 'Jwÿnants' (lower left) oil on canvas 76.6 x 65.6cm (30 3/16 x 25 13/16in). Footnotes: Provenance The Collection of Lord Penrhyn, Penrhyn Castle, no. 203, by whom offered Sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1924, lot 81 With Leggatt Brothers, London, 1925, where purchased by Lord Claud Hamilton, and thence by descent to the present owner Literature C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth century , London, 1927, vol. VIII, p. 569, cat. no. 640 (as figures by Lingelbach) K. Eisele, Jan Wijnants , Stuttgart, 2000, p. 144, cat. no. 116, ill. (as erroneously offered by Kilmorey in 1924 sale) It has been suggested that the figures are by Johannes Lingelbach. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com