AMENDED Pieter Van Bloeman  (Flemish 1657-1720) Soldiers with a blacksmith shoeing a horse

AMENDED Pieter Van Bloeman  (Flemish 1657-1720)

Soldiers with a blacksmith shoeing a horse, a fort beyond

Signed with a monogram 

Oil on canvas

119 x 97cm;43 x 38in

Inscribed by a later hand on an old label verso:

This picture by the Dutch artist Pieter Van Bloeman (1657-1719) - and a good example of his work hung at Vale Royal in the days of the 1^st  ….. Delamere  It was given by the 2^nd Lord Delamere to his brother Rev. Henry Pitt Cholmondeley Rector of Adlestrop Rectory in the county of Glocs. Having remained at Adelstrop some 60 years ago it passed in1937 into the possession of Henry Arthur Cholmondeley Esq of Shotton Hall,  Salop, wo had picture and frame thoroughly restored by Miss Clarke and Sons, Jermyn Street London