Oil painting on panel, A Winter Landscape by Antonie van Stralen, known as Verstralen (c.1593/4 – Amsterdam 1641), signed and dated, bottom on the left AVS (in monogram), 1641. Also known as Van Stralen, the artist painted in the manner of Henrick Avercamp, a specialist in winter landscapes. The old man in the foreground personifies Winter. A frozen winter with an old peasant standing on the bank i nthe left foregrund beasie a poole surrounded by a barrel making the water's edge a number of figures are walking on the ice or are collected round the tents which have been erected on the ice at the right.
Baron Lionel de Rothschild; given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) with the house and in 1949
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Antonie van Stralen, known as Verstralen (c.1593/4 – Amsterdam 1641), artist
previously ascribed to Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam 1603 – Amsterdam 1677), artist
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 22