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After a lost painting which was thought in the eighteenth century to be by Haarlem painter, Adriaen Brouwer (1605/1606-1638) and which belonged to Bourchier Cleeve of Foots Cray Place, Kent (see Notes). A Blacksmith's forge seen in semi-darkness, the furnace at the centre emanating light and creating shadows to left and right. Two figures are at work; one, seen from behind, holds an object in the furnace at the centre with his right hand and pulls on a chain with his left to operate the bellows seen on the right. A second figure to the right lifts up a hammer in his right hand to beat an object from the furnace on an anvil.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
Title
Smith's Forge
Date
1754–1765
Accession number
P.15025-R
Acquisition method
Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879
Work type
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RB England
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