Cornelis Verbeeck

Weigel family;
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Leo Schidlof's Kunstauktionshaus, 12 March 1920, lot 74;
Sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 8 April 1930, lot 196;
With A.C.J.A. Stocker, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale, Hamburg, Galerie Hans Rudolph, 29-30 March 1951, lot 457;
Private Collection, Germany;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 16 May, 2009, lot 1026.

Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, Wintertentoonstelling, Van oude kunst uit particulier bezit, 20 January - 14 February 1940, cat. no. 67.

L. Preston, Sea and River Painters of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, London 1937, p. 15.

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work on panel is on a single piece of oak, which is flat and shows no reinforcements on the reverse. In the lower left, there is a joined but not restored crack in the wood. The painting is quite dirty. What restoration there is is weak at best. If the work were cleaned, the very fine details that can be seen within the ships and the marine life would become much more apparent. Although retouches will be required to address some slight wood grain interference and thinness, the painting will respond very well to careful restoration.
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Fewer than 40 paintings are known today by Verbeeck who may have been a student of Cornelis Vroom and is listed as a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1610.  The present work has been dated to early in his career, circa 1610-15.