About This Artwork

Paul Theodor van Brussel
Dutch, 1754-1795

Still Life: Fruit and Flowers, 1787

Oil on panel
20 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (53.9 x 40.3 cm)
Inscribed: P.T. van Brussel, fecit 1787
Gift of Arthur Keating, 1948.569

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

"Auction Reports: Leverhulme Paintings," Art News 24, no. 21 (1926), pp. 10–11.

Ownership History

Adrian Hope, England until 1894; sold Christie's, London, 30 June 1894, no. 5, to Charles Davis, dealer for Alfred de Rothschild [according to Michael Hall, curator to Edmund de Rothschild, electronic communication, 12 February 2002, copy in curatorial file]; Alfred de Rothschild, (died 1918), bequeathed to his daughter Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, London, 1918; sold Christie's, London, 31 May 1918, no. 135. Sir William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (died 1925), Wirral, Cheshire; sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 19 February 1926, no. 273, to Mrs. A. C. Leeds, for $750 [according to Art News 1926 and annotated sale catalogue in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C]. Arthur Keating, Chicago by 1948; given to the Art Institute, 1948.