ID 1443074
Lot 146 | WILLEM VAN MIERIS (LEIDEN 1662-1747)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A man holding a pipe
signed and dated 'W. Van. Mieris. / Fet Ano 1710.' (centre left)
oil on panel, oval
5 3/8 x 4 ¼ in. (13.6 x 10.8 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) D.G. van der Burgh van Kronenburg, Kronenburg Castle, Loenen; his sale (†), on the premises, 6 September 1824, lot 20.
(Possibly) Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Robinson & Fisher, London, 7 May 1896, lot 58.
(Possibly) H.C. Brunning, Hove; (†), Christie's, London, 25 January 1908, lot 60 (12 gns. to Gooden & Fox).
Elizabeth Watkinson Holbrooke (1868-1938), Bladon Castle, near Burton-on-Trent; her sale (†), Christie's, London, 17 February 1939, lot 106 (32 gns. to Craddock).
J. Kornmehl, The Hague (according to the RKD).
Private collection, circa 1960, and by descent until,
Anonymous sale [Property from a Dutch Private Collection]; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 18 May 2004, lot 11.
with Johnny van Haeften, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Literature
(Possibly) C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century based on the work of John Smith, Stuttgart and Paris, 1928, vol. X, p. 178, nos. 275 and 276.
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