ALBERT MEYERINGH

1645 - Dutch - 1714

   

Landscape with travelers and a shepherd tending a goat herd on the banks of a river  

   

Oil on canvas, 70 x 58 cm

Signed lower center

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, London

We learn from Houbraken that Meyeringh spent ten years on his travels through France and Italy, and he was certainly in Rome in 1675/76; he was a view painter as well as a landscapist in the footsteps of Gaspard Dughet, to whose work Abraham Genoels (Antwerp 1640-1723), Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646-1726) and other Northerners were already attracted to, before the generation of Caspar van Wittel (1653-1756) and Jan Frans van Bloemen made great careers out of views and classical landscapes at the end of the seventeenth century. His work was sought after in the Low Countries, and there are works by him in the museums in Braunschweig, Leiden, Wenen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bremen, Utrecht, Hamburg and Stuttgart.