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Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, 1915 [page 29]
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PHILIP WOUVERMAN (1619-1688) THE CAVALRY CAMP Panel, 20 3/4 inches by 16 1/4 inches
A LANDSCAPE with a group of seven cavalry horses near some tents, erected near a tree on the right, from which two flags are flying; the four farthest mounted that in the middle by a trumpeter; in the right corner five soldiers around a fire, one of them stands with his back toward it, and another is lying asleep on the ground." —Quoted from Smith's Catalogue Raisonne.
Signed at lower left, "P.W." Engraved by Moyreau, No. 45, about 1742, when in M. Dinet's Collection. Collection of M. Dinet, 1742. Collection of Van Loon, Amsterdam, 1827. Collection of Bosch, Vienna, 1885.
Philip Wouverman was baptized at Haarlem, May 24, 1619. He was the son of Paulus Joosten Wouverman, also a painter, whose works however, have not come down to us. He is said to have received his first lessons from his father. Then he became a pupil of Frans Hals, according to the creditable statement of De Bie. Finally, he is said to have perfected himself in his favorite study under the direction of Pieter Verbeeck of Haarlem, a painter of horses. Little is known of his life. He died in 1688. Dr. Bode calls him "one of the ablest and most original painters of the whole Dutch school." Sir Walter Armstrong says "HIs popular reputation depends chiefly on his horses, but in his finest works he shows himself a consummate master of composition, of aerial perspective, and of artistic anatomy. As a natural colorist, too, and as a technical painter, he has few equals."
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