JUSTUS DE VERWER | SAILING BOATS IN A BREEZE

Art market, Berlin, circa 1928;

With Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, 1932;

With R.H. Ward, London, 1933;

Rudolf Holzapfel;

Dr. Z. Bruck, Berne (his red wax seal on the reverse);

By whom sold, New York, Kendle Galleries Inc., 5 June 1940, lot 7;

Mrs. Gaby Salomon, London;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 21 July 1972, lot 75;

With David Koetser, Zürich, 1972, from whom acquired.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 145.

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K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, Bremen 1973, vol. I, p. 11, reproduced;

W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979, vol. III, reproduced pl. 1379;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 284–85, cat. no. 75, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 130, cat. no. 145, reproduced in colour.

The reverse of this panel is stamped twice with the mark of a panel maker who is yet to be identified. He is known to have been active in the Rotterdam and Delft areas during the second and third quarters of the 17th century. The same mark has been found on panels used by Anthonie Palamedesz. (1601–73)[1], Herman Saftleven (1601–81),[2] and on the reverse of The Baptism of Christ by Jacob Lois, offered in this sale (lot 83).

1 Sale, Phillips, London, 8 December 1992, lot 116.

2 National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, inv. no. 1508; https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5394/christ-preaching-boat?search=1508&search_set_offset=17