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Pair of oils on mahogany panel depicting genre scenes set in the 18th century, but painted around 1870_80, signed lower left P. van Wijngaerdt.
Two servants clear a table and finish the guests' glasses
A waitress clears a dish containing a meat that has been started, the guests in the background.
From the Dutch school, Petrus Theodorus van Wijngaerdt, portraitist and lithographer, was born in Rotterdam on March 7, 1816, and died in Haarlem in May 1893.
A student of J.H. van der Laar, he worked in Rotterdam until 1837, in Delft until 1838, in The Hague in 1857, then in London in 1860.
Exhibited many times in Rotterdam, The Hague, and Amsterdam.
The Haarlem Museum has his "Portrait of J.H. Stoel.
Later gilded frames 38x22
Ref: E6A9PFB6RA