WILLEM LINNIG THE ELDER

A beautifully painted 19th century oil on wood panel depicting a young woman sitting at the window preparing dinner and another figure in the background, signed lower left, sight 35.6 x 30.5cm (14 x 12in); displayed in a lovely period gilt frame, outside dimensions 57.2 x 50.8cm (22 1/2 x 20in); Provenance: Dolman and Son, and Leslie Lewis, both of London, England; from a private Rosecliffe residence, London, with Belgian ancestry; Willem Linnig the Elder or Willem Linnig Senior, a Belgian painter and engraver perhaps best known for his genre and interior scenes which were reminiscent of the 17th century Flemish and Dutch style, 1819-1885