\n The artwork, called ‘Coastal Landscape with a Harbour, Fishermen and Merchants on the Shore’, has been discovered in Salisbury.\n<\/p>\n
\n The painting was brought in for valuation at the\u00a0Salisbury-based Woolley and Wallis auctioneers, after it was previously miscatalogued by another auction house.\n<\/p>\n
\n This find is a huge addition to the work of Bril, who was one of the most influential painters in late 16th and early 17th-century landscape painting in Italy and Northern Europe.\n<\/p>\n
\n The painting by famous Flemish landscape artist Paul Bril was discovered following a valuation by Salisbury-based Woolley and Wallis auctioneers. (Image: Woolley and Wallis) Art specialists Victor Fauvelle and Ed Beer were the ones who made the discovery.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Beer said: “The coastal landscape had all the hallmarks of a work by Bril; the luminous skies, rhythmic composition and delicate atmospheric depth.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The painting stood out straightaway as something special.”\n<\/p>\n
\n This find led to a consultation with Dr Luuk Pijl, the world\u2019s leading expert on Bril.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Pijl confirmed that it was an original work by Bril and emphasised its historical importance.\n<\/p>\n
\n The painting was previously unknown to Bril scholarship and has never been recorded in any existing catalogues or academic publications.\n<\/p>\n
\n It will now be published in Dr Pijl’s forthcoming catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of Bril’s work.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Pijl said: “The present coastal landscape is a fine and significant addition to a small group of oil on canvas harbour landscapes painted on canvas by Bril (his early works were painted on copper).\n<\/p>\n
\n “None of the small group of harbour landscapes were dated, but in the context of Bril\u2019s overall stylistic development, a date of 1610-1615 is feasible for this painting.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It has an estimate of \u00a315,000-\u00a320,000. (Image: Woolley & Wallis) Specialist Mr Beer said: “This rediscovered painting sheds new light on a transitional period in Bril\u2019s career, revealing his growing interest in classical narrative and the poetic potential of landscape.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The work has never before been exhibited or published and we expect it to attract strong institutional and private interest at auction.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The painting, which shows a natural harbour on the Mediterranean coast, comes from the private collection of the Charrington family of Winchfield House in Hampshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n It carries an estimate of \u00a315,000-\u00a320,000.\n<\/p>\n
\n It will be offered in a sale of Old Masters, British & European Paintings at Woolley and Wallis on Wednesday, September 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork, called ‘Coastal Landscape with a Harbour, Fishermen and Merchants on the Shore’, has been discovered in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}