A Skirmish of Cavalry

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Throughout the seventeenth century, there was a demand for a wide variety of military subjects in painting, ranging from soldiers pillaging to actual battle scenes and depictions of guardrooms and soldiers in brothels. This picture is relatively rare in showing a cavalry skirmish where the interest of the picture is equally divided between the military event and the landscape setting.' (Wright, 2002, p. 67)

Ferens Art Gallery

Kingston upon Hull

Title

A Skirmish of Cavalry

Date

c.1640–c.1645

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 40 x W 55.7 cm

Accession number

KINCM:2005.5045

Acquisition method

purchased at a sale, Dunnings, Beverley, 1952

Work type

Painting

Signature/marks description

front lower centre (on log) 'AV Hoeff [?]' (AV in monogram)

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