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Still Life with Dead Game and Fruit
by N N Schneider (attributed to)

Picture
Research by Ayla Shearer, Jean Holland & Anne Matthews

Acc No                28
Artist                    N N Schneider (attributed to)
Artist dates          active 1753
Medium               oil on canvas
Size                     76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 50 in)
Date painted        unknown
Donor                   Mrs L Flanagan
                             Ribblehurst, Promenade
                             Fairhaven, Lytham St Annes
Date donated       24 October 1949    









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ARTIST

There appears to be very little information available on the above Flemish artist. The source for the artist’s initials and date seem to be those identified by the Witt Library:


 A Checklist of Painters  c1200-1994, 2nd ed, 1995

Entry reads:   SCHNEIDER, N (?) N(?), Flemish, op 1753

The RKD, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, also lists N N Schneijder (or Schneider) as working in The Hague where, in 1753, he was mentioned as being a member of the Haagse Confreriekamer van Pictura.  He is recorded as being active in the mid-eighteenth century when he specialised in hunting scenes and still-life of dead game, such as this one, which is typical of the small larder and game pieces influenced by seventeenth century painters from the Netherlands.

PAINTING


The objects are captured in meticulous detail, providing a realism of texture and a richness of colour which appealed to members of high society.  After all, these were the foodstuffs which would have graced their tables.  By purchasing the paintings they were displaying not only their wealth but also the hunting privileges they would have enjoyed, in particular the game birds who lived in the marshes and dunes of the Low Countries, familiar territory to Schneider.

This was described as one of a pair by the same artist, second presently unlocated, by Stephen Sartin, Fylde Borough Collection of Works of Art, 2001, p27.


REFERENCES
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Andrew Greg, Director, National Inventory Research Project, University of Glasgow

Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London



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