LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, on loan from 1941-1952(?) (as Dutch School mid-17th century), 1952 inv. no. 1186

Literature:

A Catalogue of the Pictures at Canford Manor in the possession of Lord Wimborne, 1888, p. 101, no. 252 (as Willem van de Velde the Elder);. M.E. Houtzager (ed.), Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Catalogus der Schilderijen , Utrecht 1952, p. 403, no. 1186 (as Dutch school, mid-17th century); . P.C. Sutton, Dutch & Flemish Paintings, The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem , London 2002, pp. 96-99, no. 16, reproduced

Provenance:

Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 1849, lot unknown (according to the 1888 catalogue below);. 1 . There purchased ('through Mr Barker') by Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Bt., (1785-1852), Canford Manor, Dorset (bears the family bookplate on the reverse of the panel); . By descent to Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), Canford Manor, Dorset; . By descent to the Rt Hon. Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (1873-1939); . By whom sold London, Christie's, 9 March 1923, lot 57 (as Van de Velde) for 170 guineas to Asscher; . G. Ribbius Pelletier, Utrecht, from 1941 until after 1952, by whom deposited (' Bewaergeving ') at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht (according to a label; on the reverse of the frame); . Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 12 May 1975, lot 284, (as Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom), where acquired by Baron van Dedem