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Jan Siberechts arrived in England from Flanders in 1673, under the aegis of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and at once attracted notable patrons, no doubt owing to his well-established reputation among the Flemish elite.
The present pastoral landscape with a shepherdess on a donkey carrying a basket of flowers, and fording a stream with a village in the distance and with a church, was painted in Derbyshire. The church is almost certainly represents Edensor, near the grounds of Chatsworth. Though the structure which would have been known to Siberechts was torn down in the 19th century for a larger Victorian structure, a circa 1860 photo of the church in its original form does strongly resemble the painted structure shown here.
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