ID 1344014
Lot 14 | JAN VAN DE CAPPELLE (AMSTERDAM 1626-1679)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
A calm with fishing boats and figures on a jetty
signed and dated 'I.V. Cappelle 1651' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 29 7/8 in. (49.7 x 76 cm.)
Provenance
with Martin H. Colnaghi, by 1892.
with Brunner Gallery, Paris, 1920.
Dr. E. Guinle, Casa Guinle, Rio de Janeiro; Christie's, London, 28 July 1926, lot 27 (unsold).
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd (according to RKD research files).
Major-General Sir Harold A. Wernher (1893-1973); (†) Christie's, London, 27 June 1975, lot 75.
with Leonard Koetser Gallery, by November 1975.
Anonymous sale [Property of the Executors of a Deceased's Estate]; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1997 (=1st day), lot 86, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VII, London, 1923, p. 188, no. 116.
W.R. Valentiner, 'Jan van de Cappelle', The Art Quarterly, IV, Autumn 1941, p. 296, under note 1.
M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle 1624/6-1679, Leigh-on-Sea, 1975, p. 77, no. 116.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, January-March 1892, no. 63 (lent by M.H Colnaghi).
| Artist: | Jan van de Cappelle (1626 - 1679) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Jan van de Cappelle (1626 - 1679) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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