An Amusing Memento Mori Interior View Of A Musical Happening Replete With Skeletons

An Elegant Musical Party in an Interior’ attributed to Gillis van Tilborgh, oil on canvas depicting a Dutch genre scene with figures dressed in rich silk clothing, fine lace ruffs and fichu collars grouped round musicians playing a clavichord, a fiddle and a flute, some couples holding hands or sitting close together and a baby playing on the floor, with a plaque reading ‘Gerard Terburg 1608-1681’, the reverse with a chalk notation ‘Ld Hesketh’. Dutch, circa 1870. Provenance: George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (1768-1830), or his brother The Hon. Thomas Fermor, later 4th Earl of Pomfret (1770-1833), Easton Neston. Thence by descent, Lord Hesketh, Easton Neston. His Sale, Sotheby’s London, 17-19 May 2005, lot 82. Private Collection. Literature: George Baker...

Church interior with an angel, drawing and watercolour on paper, framed under glass, 20th century. School of Paris, Evelyne Luez Measures: H: 30.5 cm...

A marvellous, tall six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a rare painting of a large white elephant standing under a blooming paulownia tree (kiri), with a monkey sitting on the ear o...

Drawing on paper under glass, framed, signed Luez, 20th century. View of an Oriental port. Measures: H: 24.5 cm, W: 30.5 cm, D: 1.5 cm.

Italian painting from 1600 Banquet with Figures Memento Mori by Giovanni Martinelli, titled Death Comes to the Banquet Table, vanitas circa 1635. The oil-on-canvas painting is inspi...

We love paintings and drawings of interiors, as they portray the soul of a room. This vignette is small, but contains so many lovely details of the French salon. The artist, Leo Gr...