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Collection Details
According to a label on the back, Miss Sulivan
(who married the 12th Earl of Carnwath); by descent to Lady Violet Dalzell,
daughter of the 14th Earl and mother of the 2nd Lord Faringdon.
Background
Conflagration scenes by night were painted by Jan Brueghel the Elder and
his school (eg, Schoubroeck). The present painting, which is reminiscent
of the Valkenborch family of artists, may depend on the picture by Brueghel
in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (repd in catalogue, Deutsche und Niederländische
Malerei zwischen Renaissance und Barock, 1961, p. 66, No. 832) of which
a number of variants and copies exist. The buildings of Rome generally
featured in such pictures. The story is here identified by the Trojan
Horse in the background, and in the foreground the escaping figures of
Aeneas bearing Anchises on his back, with Ascanius at his side.
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