4212 - Attributed to Hendrick de Meijer, Scene of Soldiers

Attributed to Hendrick de Meijer, Scene of Soldiers Depiction of an attack on several covered wagons; in the centre, a white grey horse and a horseman holding a torch; in the foreground on the right, a dead horse; on the left, a bare tree; in the background, the silhouette of a town, oil on wood, indistinctly monogrammed and dated (?) on the left at a later date; on the reverse, an old label attributing the work to Hendrick de Mejier and dated 1625; on the frame, an old ownership label reading ‘Sven J.son Petersohn [...]Stockholm’, signs of age, retouching, frame slightly dented, inner dimensions 34 x 43.5 cm. Artist information: Dutch genre and battle painter (before 1620 to after 1689), documented as working in Rotterdam from 1649, father of Cornelis de Meijer. Source: RKD.