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Lot 62
  • 62

Thomas Wijck

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Wijck
  • view of italianate buildings on the banks of a river
  • Point of the brush and grey wash over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines;
    signed in black chalk, lower left of verso: T Wijck 

Provenance

A.W.M. Mensing;
his sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller & Cie., 29 April 1937, lot 825;
J. Fred Bianchi,
his sale, Amsterdam, Paul Brandt, 25 November 1964, lot 672 

Condition

Unframed. In very good condition. There are a few tiny, isolated ink-like spots, and a few very faint fox marks, but otherwise the sheet is clear and the medium fresh and strong.
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Catalogue Note

Thomas Wijck's journey to Itay is not documented, but it is possible to deduce that he travelled there from works such as these.  The biographer Arnold Houbraken wrote of Wijck that he painted a number of views of harbours and markets populated with figures 'and behind the same showed large buildings and palaces drawn by himself from life in Italy.'  A comparable drawing by Wijck of a similar range of buildings has been identified as the Ripa Grande, Rome.1

1.  British Museum, see A.M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, vol. IV, London 1931, p. 117, no. 6, reproduced plate LXVII