Landscape with Two Figures dancing with Tambourines (after Claude Lorrain)

attributed to Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807). Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Two Figures dancing with Tambourines (after Claude Lorrain) attributed to Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807). A landscape with high trees and a group of people sitting, standing and dancing on a bank of a wide river. A watermill and a bridge in the distance, on the left; mountains in the background. This painting is after the original in the Doria-Pamphilj Collection, Rome, called 'The Mill'. The prime version is in the National Gallery, London,(formerly Angerstein collection), commissioned by the Duc de Bouillon in 1647 and inscribed the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca on a tree stump in the centre. It is very possibly the picture described by the Reverend G.Vaughan Sampson as "A Landscape - by Hackaert, a copy of the Altieri Claude", at the Earl Bishop's house, Downhill, in Ireland, and which thus did not perish in the fire there of 1851. It is quite feasible that Sampson was either misinformed when he visited Downhill, or himself confused the Altieri Collection with that of another Roman princely family, the Doria-Pamhphilj. As the two Altieri Claudes had made a celebrated arrival in England in 1799, and bought by William Beckford for the then enormous sum of £6825, their notoriety would still have been fresh in Sampson's mind in 1802, which may have encouraged a misunderstanding.The Earl Bishop is known to have been a patron of Hackaert, having commissioned from him two exceptionally large and fine landscape views in 1779 and 1780. In a handwritten wall plan of the library of circa 1910 this picture is referred to as "Marriage Festival of Isaac and Rebecca" after Claude, and as late as 1913, Farrer was still adding to the confusion by referring to it, like the 1st Marquess in 1837 as "after the Aldobrandini Claude". Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)