Attributed to Jan Peeters the Elder

John Thane (L.1544);
Professor J.Q. Van Regteren Altena (according to the black chalk inscription, verso);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 June 1972, lot 130 (as Caspar van Eyck);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 21 March 1977, lot 81 (as Caspar van Eyck)

Window mounted. Overall in very good condition. The left margin appears to be slightly cut as there is no grey framing line visible. Otherwise medium is strong.
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Though the Mediterranean coastal subject matter would be appropriate for a work by Gaspard van Eyck, an Antwerp-born artist who worked alongside Cornelis de Wael in Genoa, Van Eyck's extremely rare drawings are much more precise in their handling (see, for example, the typical View of Lisbon, sold in 1991¹).  This atmospheric, freely drawn shore seen seems in fact closer to the works of another Antwerp artist, Jan Peeters, who specialised in drawings of far-flung cities, ports and harbours.

1.  London, Sotheby's, 18 February 1991, lot 128