Hendrick Avercamp

Sir John Campbell, Castelnau, Charing, Kent;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie’s, 28 March 1924, lot 34, for £126, to Mellaert;

With J.H.J. Mellaert, Borgharen;

From whom acquired by Otto B. Schuster, Amsterdam, by whom sold, in April 1929, to De Boer;

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam;

From whom acquired by Van Hees, Delft, 22 October 1929;

Thence by descent to his son, Dr. C.A. van Hees, Reeuwijk;

His sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 31 May 1960, lot 3, for 40,000 florins, to De Boer;

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam and Lucerne, 1960–62;

From whom acquired by a private collector, 1962;

By whom offered (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 15 April 1992, lot 29, where unsold;

By whom subsequently sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 8 July 1994, lot 68, to Koetser;

With David Koetser, Zurich, by October 1994 until at least June 1996;

From whom purchased in 1996 by the present collectors.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst Nederland, 29 June – 1 September 1929, no. 4;

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Tentoonstelling kunstbezit van oud-alumni der Leidse Universiteit, June 1950, no. 11;

Amsterdam, P. de Boer, Wintertentoonstelling van oude schilderijen, 15 February – 15 August 1961, no. 5;

Zurich, David Koetser, Fine Old Master Paintings, 27 October – 31 December 1994.

‘Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in het Rijksmuseum’, in Elsevier’s Geïllustreerd Maandschrift, vol. 39, no. 78, August 1929, p. 138, reproduced pl. XXX;

‘Auktions-Vorschau’, in Die Weltkunst, vol. XXX, no. 10, 15 May 1960, reproduced;

C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp 1585–1634, Zwolle 1933, p. 204, no. S 15, and 2^nd ed. Doornspijk 1979, p. 205, no. S 14.1 and p. 255, under no. T 18;

M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam 1998, text vol., p. 7, under no. 13.