Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, undated and on canvas at Lotherton Hall in Yorkshire, brings together Genesis 2–3 with Jan Brueghel's paradise landscape tradition. The subject allows him to depict the abundance of creation before the Fall while embedding the narrative of temptation in a distant or marginal position — a compositional strategy he used to keep the theological drama subordinate to the visual paradise. Lotherton Hall, a late Victorian country house near Leeds now managed by Leeds Museums, holds a collection assembled by the Gascoigne family over several generations, including a number of Flemish and Northern European paintings acquired through the British aristocratic art market.

Oil on canvas; the larger canvas format gives Brueghel room for an expansive paradise landscape filled with animals, trees, and flowers at a scale beyond his copper miniatures. The composition likely places Adam and Eve in the middle ground with the serpent, while the foreground is occupied by a richly stocked animal procession similar to his Ark compositions.