An Evening Landscape with a Castle Ruin

Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665) . Oil painting on canvas, An Evening Landscape by Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665), signed and dated on rocks bottom mid left: H. Swanevelt f Paris 1649. A wooden bridge, crossing a small ravine, leads to a group of ruined classical buildings to which a podere has been added. In the vicinity are figures and a flock of goats and two peasants are approaching the bridge by some trees at the left. An Italianate scene painted in Paris by a Dutchman, of the kind popular with the English in the eighteenth century. Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex (Accredited Museum)