A Pair of Still Life Paintings, Tobias Stranover

(or Stranovius, England/Hungarian, 1684-1735)

Birds with Fruit on a Woodland Floor; A Jay with a Basket of Strawberries, A Blue Tit with Peaches and Currents, each signed lower left "TS", oil on canvas, 24-1/8 x 19 in.; matching modern gilt wood frames, 29 x 24 x 1-3/4 in.

Provenance: With S. Nystad, The Hague/Lochem, as by Stranover, according to photos from 1957 at the RKD; Private Virginia Collection

Note: Brunk Auctions would like to thank Dr. Fred Meijer for his assistance with the authentication of these paintings based on images.
Condition Report: lined, restretched on old stretchers, crackle, stretcher marks, surface dirt, yellowed varnish, bloom, retouch; frames with abrasions