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| PARKER, C C. PARKER Op. 1820 - 1830 English School A Trompe l`Oeil of a Sporting Life Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cms C. Parker is a rare artist who seemingly specialised in sporting trompe l`oeils. This painting is unusual in that most ones of this type and of this period in England were done in watercolour. The format, particularly of correspondence and other papers in wall mounted letter racks, had a long history. Artists such as the Flemish painters Wallerant Vaillant 1623 1677, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts 1610 1675, and the Dutchman Evert Collier 1640 1706 who also worked in England, inspired French painters such as Dominique Doncre 1743 1820, Laurent Dubois 1761 1835 and the portraitist Louis Leopold Boilly 1761 1845. The last of these produced one painting designed to look like a table top with various objects on it. Many of these earlier trompe l`oeils had a moralistic message as in vanitas still lifes; the late 18th and early 19th century versions tended to be amusing distractions designed to demonstrate interests or pursuits of fashionable society in an unusual way. They would be brimming with accoutrements of the trade or pastime together with magazines or almanacs. Price: POA |
