The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 89
  • 89

Circle of Ludolf Bakhuizen

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Description

  • Ludolf Backhuysen I
  • an english hooker in a strong breeze off a coast with tall cliffs
  • bears old attribution in black chalk on verso: Ludolfo Backhuysen; and numbering in brown ink, lower right of verso: 130
    point of the brush and grey and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, within black ink framing lines

Provenance

Count Moriz von Fries (L.2903);
acquired from Aubrey Beese, 1963 

Catalogue Note

This is a version of a drawing by Bakhuizen, in the Royal Collection, at Windsor (RL 6276), which in turn relates to a painting by the artist in the National Gallery, London (see C. White and C. Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle, Cambridge 1994, pp. 180-181, cat. no. 289).