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38 / Highlights of the Annual Report 2004–05
The Virgin and Child with
Saint Anne
Anonymous Flemish artist, c.1500. Oil on
oak panel, 41.0 x 28.5 cm. Presented by Dr
Kenneth Garlick.
Dr Kenneth Garlick, a distinguished
former Keeper of Western Art in the
Ashmolean, generously presented this
charming Flemish devotional painting,
made around 1500. The unknown artist
seems close to the Master of the
Embroidered Foliage; named for his
stylized, delicate treatment of leaves and
plants, this painter was active in the
southern Netherlands around
1495–1500 and was much influenced by
Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van
de Goes.
Bronze lamp (or inkwell) in the form of
the head of an African boy
Italian, Padua, attributed to the workshop of
Severo da Ravenna, c.1510–1530. Bronze, H. 7.0
cm. Presented by Brenda, Lady Cook, in memory
of her husband Sir Francis Cook.
Ancient Roman lamps in the form of African
boys’ heads were known in the Renaissance.
This is a handsome example of a version
made in the workshop of Severo, one of the
principal art bronze workshops in
Renaissance Padua, and an eloquent example
of the Renaissance workshop’s homage to
Antiquity. The Cook Collection, from which
the gift has been made, was formed in
Victorian England and was one of the
greatest private art collections ever assembled.