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The Meet, ca. 1743

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 230 x 175 cm
  • Inv. 1975-A

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Pieter Jan van Reijsschoot was the first painter in an artist family that was to dominate artistic activities in Ghent for more than five decades. He spent the majority of his life in England, which resulted in his nickname ‘the Englishman’. He preferred to paint historic scenes and portraits of lower provincial English nobility. The Meet (the meeting prior to the hunt) and The Kill (the killing of the stag) are among his best works. They are so-called sporting conversation pieces. This genre, which was originally created by Antwerp painter Peter Tillemans, was extremely popular in England during the eighteenth century. Van Reijsschoot painted The Meet and The Kill for Sir John Frederick of Southwick Park in Hampshire. They show the lord and his party during a hunt at Hascombe Estate in Surrey.

Artist

Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot RKD
Ghent 1702 - Ghent 1772
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Title The Meet
Date ca. 1743
Period 18th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom left on a stone base: P. VAN REYSCHOOT / PINXIT
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1975-A
Acquisition credit purchase
Frederick, Charles
Hampshire
1975
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3069/manifest.json
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School / Style Rococo AAT
Gent in de 18de eeuw : De schilders van Reijsschoot / Marie Fredericq-Lilar. - Ruiselede : Lamandart, 1992 (p. 35-41)
Gand au XVIIIe siècle : Les peintres van Reijsschoot / Marie Fredericq-Lilar. - Ruiselede : Lamandart, 1992
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 271 (ill. 54))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 143 (ill.))
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