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| Artist | Attributed to manner of Bega, Cornelis (Dutch painter and draftsman, born 1631 or 1632, died 1664) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to Bega, Cornelis (Dutch painter and draftsman, born 1631 or 1632, died 1664) Previously attributed to Brouwer, Adriaen (Flemish painter, born 1605 or 1606, died 1638) |
| Title | Dutch Interior |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1800 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1900 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 37 x 30.7 cm |
| Description | Cornelis Bega was probably trained by Adriaen van Ostade, and was a popular seventeenth-century Dutch genre painter. As such his works, and manner of painting have been much copied, and this poor quality, nineteenth-century work is painted in a close imitation of his style. |
| Subject | everyday life; figure; interior |
| Collection | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
| Current accession number | TWCMS:G1171 |
| Previous accession number(s) | SAG 471 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by J. A. D. Shipley, 1909. |
| Principal publications | Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1917, no. 471 attributed to Adriaen Brouwer; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1921, no. 471 attributed to Adriaen Brouwer; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1951, no. 471 attributed as ?Abraham Cornelisz. Bega? or ?Cornelisz. Pietersz. Bega. |
| Notes | This work has had several previous attributions: in the 1917 and 1921 Shipley catalogues it was attributed to Adriaen Brouwer; in 1951, to either Abraham Bega, or Cornelis Bega; in 1974 Christie's attributed the work to Bega. However, in 1977, researcher Charlotte Miller re-attributed the painting to a nineteenth-century imitator of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting, in the manner of Cornelis Bega. This is certainly a plausible attribution, though it has been argued that the figures in this work are painted so badly that they cannot be said to have been inspired by anyone. No perspective exists - the objects in the foreground are simply added in black. A note in the painting's files sums up the work as 'a very very inferior picture. One of the worst in the whole collection.' |
| Rights status | The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Museums) |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel |
