Interior of an Imaginary Gothic Church, Looking East

Peeter Neeffs (I)

c. 1655 - c. 1660

oil on panel

Rijksmuseum

An interior view of a grand Gothic church with high vaulted ceilings and tall columns. Several figures are present, including two women in the foreground and a group in the middle ground, with an organ visible on the left. …; collection James II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ('The Kings Great Closet', Whitehall Palace, London, as either no. 21, as Peter Nisse (‘The prospect of a Church’){Mss in the office of the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, St James’s Palace, London, dated 15 February 1688 (o.s. = 25 February 1689), thus shortly after William, Prince of Orange, had become King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.} or as no. 557, as Peter Neefs (‘A Perspective of a Church’);{_<em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second etc.</em>_, printed for W. Bathoe, London 1758, p. 48.} sent by King W