Esaias van de Velde Amsterdam 1587 - 1630 The Hague

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Carola van Ham, 1977, when bought by the Herwegs.

K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. III, Bremen 1981, p. 84, no. 476, reproduced; 
G.S. Keyes, Esaias van de Velde, 1587-1630, Doornspijk 1984, p. 186, cat. no. ATTR. 7, reproduced fig. 95 (under 'Uncertain attributions');
J. Briels, Vlaamse schilders in de noordelijke Nederlanden in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw 1585-1630, Antwerp 1987, p. 163, reproduced p. 162, no. 195.

We are grateful to George S. Keyes for informing us that he no longrer has reservations about the attribution of this and related pictures, including, among others, the similar battle scene in Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, inv. no. NM 1690 (see Keyes, under Literature, p. 128, cat. no. 34, reproduced plate 289) which he has recently re-examined at first hand, and which he also now accepts as autograph.  He dates these paintings to the late 1620s.