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A Shepherdess with Sheep A Shepherdess with Sheep
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A Shepherdess with Sheep

Willem van Romeyn

Art Funded
1992
Dimensions
46 x 62 cm
Vendor
Sotheby's
Part of the Patteson collection.

John Patterson's collection was enlarged by the fortuitous inheritance, by marriage, of the core of the collection of the Suffolk antiquary Rev.Cox Macro DD, a major part of which was a group of paintings by Peter Tillemans (1684-1734) of Antwerp.

Provenance

John Patteson; by descent to Philippa and Charity Patteson; the executors of their estate.

Oil on panel

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Art we’ve helped buy at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

An assemblage of Anglo-Saxon material from Winfarthing, Norfolk
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Binham Bracteate VI and silver brooch
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Your Good Health
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Woody Landscape, Strumpshaw
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Wine cup, feeding cup & bleeding bowl
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William III tankard
 Acquired 1988
Walpole Tureen
 Acquired 2002
Village Scene
 Acquired 1967
View on the Yare near Thorpe Church
 Acquired 1955
View of Bishop Bridge, Norwich
 Acquired 1934
Venus in a Car Drawn by Doves and attended by Three Cupids
 Acquired 2005
Untitled (Cows), Norfolk
 Acquired 2009
Trifid dessert spoon
 Acquired 2009
Torc & fragment of torc
 Acquired 1964
Three Hounds with Sportsman, a Hunt to the Left
 Acquired 1992
Three carved voussoirs
 Acquired 1992
The Thames at Twickenham
 Acquired 1955
The Supper at Emmaus
 Acquired 2004
The Stag Hunt
 Acquired 1992
The Snettisham Treasure
 Acquired 1949
The Snettisham Assemblage
 Acquired 2011
The Shepherd on the Heath
 Acquired 1949
The Philip Miller Collection of Teapots
 Acquired 1989
The Newmarket Watering Course
 Acquired 1992
The Mill
 Acquired 1948
The Life Room
 Acquired 1981
The Hockwold Mounts
 Acquired 2011
The Hingham Hoard
 Acquired 2015
The Helmingham Breviary
 Acquired 1993
The Harford Farm assemblage
 Acquired 2003
The Happy Dead I-VI
 Acquired 1994
The Grand Release
 Acquired 2015
The Foxley Bracelet Hoard
 Acquired 2006
The Crown Princess Takes Tea
 Acquired 2011
The Camperdown Bowl
 Acquired 2003
The Binham Bracteates
 Acquired 2013
The Beauchamp-Proctor Family and Friends at Langley Park, Norfolk
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The Ashwellthorpe Triptych
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The Ashby St Mary Hoard
 Acquired 2016
The Anglers
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Teaset
 Acquired 2007
Teapot
 Acquired 1996
Teapot
 Acquired 1996
Sword scabbard boss
 Acquired 2010
Study of trees after Pynaeker
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Still Life with Loaf of Bread, Wine and Plums
 Acquired 1992
Stalker
 Acquired 2007
St Martin's Gate, Norwich
 Acquired 1955
Southern Landscape with Figures
 Acquired 1992
Silver tankard
 Acquired 1992
Shipping Scene
 Acquired 1955
Shipping in an Estuary with a Jetty to the Left
 Acquired 1992
Seated Nude
 Acquired 1996
Rocky Coast with Wrecks
 Acquired 1948
Robertsbridge seal matrix
 Acquired 2008
River Landscape with Ferry Boat and Cottage
 Acquired 1992
River Bungay
 Acquired 2013
Preparatory Study for the Head of a Warder
 Acquired 2002
Prelude to 1,000 Temporary Objects of Our Times
 Acquired 1998
Portrait of the Rev Dr Cox Macro
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of the Nabob of Arcot
 Acquired 1939
Portrait of Mrs Soame
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of Mrs Joseph Cox
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of Mrs John Patteson
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of Mr and Mrs John Custance of Norwich and their daughter Frances
 Acquired 1991
Portrait of Master Edward and Miss Mary Macro
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of Joseph Cox
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of John Custance of Weston House, Norwich, Norfolk
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of Edward Macro
 Acquired 1992
Portrait of a Young Lady
 Acquired 2007
Portrait of a Lady
 Acquired 1992
Portrait bust of Sir Andrew Fountaine
 Acquired 1992
Pietra Pennata
 Acquired 1939
Penny of King Aethelred of East Anglia
 Acquired 2010
Off Corton
 Acquired 2014
Nymphs Bathing in a Southern Landscape
 Acquired 1992
Norwich silver beaker and counter-box
 Acquired 1984
Norwich River: Afternoon
 Acquired 1994
Newmarket Heath-Watering Course on Warren Hill
 Acquired 1992
New Mills: Men wading
 Acquired 1970
Nessus and the Ladies
 Acquired 2007
Mileham sword pommel
 Acquired 2008
Man with a Lamp
 Acquired 2001
Lowestoft Porcelain Mug
 Acquired 1980
Lotus I & Lotus II
 Acquired 1992
Little Haugh Hall, Suffolk
 Acquired 1992
Large Head
 Acquired 1995
Landscape, Dawn
 Acquired 2001
Landscape, Autumn
 Acquired 2001
Landscape with river
 Acquired 1936
Landscape with Horses
 Acquired 1992
Landscape with Cattle
 Acquired 1992
Landscape at Longleat
 Acquired 1939
Labours of the Months (December/January; March; September; April/November)
 Acquired 2011
La grande-rue a Argenteuil
 Acquired 1945
Kings Lynn apostle spoon
 Acquired 2005
Kangaroo & Emu lost in Chintz
 Acquired 2011
Hunting Piece: Going a Hunting with Lord Biron's Pack of Hounds
 Acquired 1992
Horse with Groom and Hounds
 Acquired 1992
Hevingham Torc Ring
 Acquired 2008
Hayboats on the Thames
 Acquired 1949
Hawking vervel of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
 Acquired 2013
Hand teapot
 Acquired 1996
Great Walsingham Assemblage
 Acquired 2012
Gold torc
 Acquired 1942
Glasses decorated by William Absolon of Yarmouth
 Acquired 2008
George III cabinet
 Acquired 1992
Francis Matthew Schutz in his bed
 Acquired 1990
Four Hounds with Huntsmen to the Right
 Acquired 1992
Four Hounds with Gentlemen Shooting
 Acquired 1992
Flight Take-Off
 Acquired 2012
Five Windows with Sky
 Acquired 2009
Fincham sword pyramid
 Acquired 2007
Figures on a Shore, a Mother and Child, a Grey Horse, a Cart Beyond
 Acquired 1992
Figures in a Landscape
 Acquired 1949
Ferry Boat on a River
 Acquired 1992
Farm Buildings and Trees
 Acquired 1939
Fantail
 Acquired 2006
Extensive Southern Landscape
 Acquired 1992
Estuary Scene with Shipping- figures in the foreground
 Acquired 1992
Engraved decanter
 Acquired 1999
Emerald green glass rummer
 Acquired 2006
Ellenor 2nd wedding
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Elizabethan table carpet
 Acquired 1968
Electrum Torc
 Acquired 2005
Edward and Priscilla Wakefield with Mrs Wakefield's sister Katherine (Gurney)
 Acquired 1986
Eaton II Hoard
 Acquired 2007
Dutch Man-of-War and Vessels in a Breeze
 Acquired 1972
Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman
 Acquired 2000
Delftware plate
 Acquired 2011
Cromer
 Acquired 1975
Cowherd with Cattle on a Path beneath a Cliff
 Acquired 1992
Costume design for Balthazar
 Acquired 1932
Cossey Watering
 Acquired 1949
Cossey Park, Norwich
 Acquired 1934
Composite rings
 Acquired 2005
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Collection of engravings and etchings
 Acquired 1929
Collection of English and Dutch delftware
 Acquired 1997
Collection of drawings
 Acquired 1932
Collection of 407 items of teaware
 Acquired 1992
Cattle in a Field, Village beyond a Wood
 Acquired 1992
Cattle drinking beneath Trees
 Acquired 1939
Castle in Ruins
 Acquired 1930
Carving of the Head of John the Baptist
 Acquired 1985
Caernarvon Castle
 Acquired 1956
Bust of Amelia Opie
 Acquired 2008
Bristol delft bowl
 Acquired 1986
Bredfield Brooch
 Acquired 2011
Bracteate
 Acquired 2005
Binham II bracteate
 Acquired 2011
Battle Scene
 Acquired 1992
Assemblage of material from an Anglo Saxon cemetery
 Acquired 2008
An Extensive River Landscape with Figures on a Road, a Wood to the Left
 Acquired 1992
An Elizabethan Silver Flagon
 Acquired 1980
Album of watercolours of birds
 Acquired 1995
Abstract Teapot
 Acquired 1996
A Village Fair with a Mummer in the Foreground
 Acquired 1992
A Spaniel
 Acquired 1939
A Southern Landscape with Muleteers on a Roadway
 Acquired 1992
A Sluice-Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Path
 Acquired 1992
A Shepherdess with Sheep
 Acquired 1992
A River Estuary
 Acquired 1958
A Lowestoft Porcelain Bowl
 Acquired 1983
A Hound, a Spaniel, and a Pug
 Acquired 1992
A Group of Men and a Horse near a Frozen River
 Acquired 1972
A Cavalry Skirmish in a Mountaineous Landscape
 Acquired 1992
4 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
17 Dutch and English delftware tiles
 Acquired 1999
1) Vase with design of grasses; 2) Tree of Life vase; 3) Salad bowl
 Acquired 2008
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 Acquired 2010

William Hogarth's Francis Matthew Schutz in his Bed was commissioned by Schutz's wife, Susan, as a lesson against intemperance. The original painting depicted Schutz vomiting into a chamber pot, but this was overpainted by an unknown artist when it was felt Schutz's heirs would find the portrayal disrespectful.



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