Object data
oil on panel
support: height 19.7 cm × width 15.5 cm
outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)
Daniël Boone
Man Eating from an Earthenware Pot
c. 1660 - c. 1680
Inscriptions
- signature, bottom centre: D BOONE
Scientific examination and reports
- technical report: G. Tauber, RMA, 30 August 2006
- dendrochronology: P. Klein, RMA, 3 April 2007
Provenance
…; donated by F. Heusy, Kampen, to the museum, 18931
Object number: SK-A-1600
Credit line: Gift of F. Heusy, Kampen
Copyright: Public domain
The artist
Daniel Boone ((?) Borgerhout (?)1632 - London 1692)
According to Campo Weyerman, Daniel Boone (or Boon or Boontje), painter of low-life scenes, was born in Borgerhout, near Antwerp, in 1632, and was taught by Joos van Craesbeeck, active in Antwerp from 1633/34 until circa 1651 and thereafter, in Brussels. There is no record of his apprenticeship in the St Luke’s guild rosters of either city. Certainly Boone was in Amsterdam by 1654 and in contact then with Reynier Hals (1627-1672), who made a disposition for him and Pieter van Roestraeten (c. 1630-1700).2 But there is no further reference to Boone in the extensive archival material relating to Hals, and the styles of the two artists as far as can be judged are not close.3 In Amsterdam Boone may also have known Egbert van Heemskerk I (c. 1634-1704), who bore witness for Hals there in 1661, and was to remain on and off in Amsterdam for the rest of the decade before leaving for England in the 1670s.4 Sometime during the reign of King Charles II (1660-85), Boone also moved to London;5 there Jan Griffier (1652 or 1656-1718), who was in London from 1666, is traditionally thought to have etched his portrait.6 The posthumous sale of Boone’s collection was advertised in the London Gazette, 22 September 1692.
REFERENCES
J. Campo Weyerman, De levens-beschrijvingen der nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen, met een uytbreyding over de schilder-konst der ouden: Verrijkt met de konterfeytsels der voornamate konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen in koper gesneden door J. Houbraken, 4 vols., The Hague/Dordrecht 1729-69, IV, pp. 307-314; A. Griffiths, The Print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, exh. cat. London (British Museum) 1998, under no. 183
Entry
This undistinguished work is typical of the little that is known of Boone’s oeuvre; the handling is more suggestive of Egbert van Heemskerk I (c. 1634-1704) than any other known Flemish painter of the time. Van Heemskerk was active from the early 1660s in Amsterdam and thereabouts and in London from the early 1670s,7 and his Old Man Smoking in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, which has been dated to the 1680s, is comparable to the present work.8 A common source of influence may have been the work of Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), who was active in Haarlem; noteworthy, for instance, is a Peasant Holding a Jug and a Pipe by him in the National Gallery of circa 1650-55.9 There is also a connection in the treatment of low-life scenes with works by David Teniers II (1610-1690) from the 1660s.10
There are no extant dated works by Boone and few by Van Heemskerk, so proposing a date of execution for the Rijksmuseum Man Eating is difficult. The handling is similar to that in Men Playing Cards in a Tavern (SK-A-987). Both may be works of the 1660s or later.
Gregory Martin, 2022
Collection catalogues
1903, p. 56, no. 561; 1976, p. 128, no. A 1600
Citation
G. Martin, 2022, 'Daniël Boone, Man Eating from an Earthenware Pot, c. 1660 - c. 1680', in Flemish Paintings in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6125
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