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Jacobus Linthorst
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description
- Jacobus Linthorst
- A still life of fruit and flowers, including peaches, grapes, plums, currants, melon and peonies, convolvuli and blossom all in a basket on a marble ledge
- signed and dated lower right.: J. Linthorst 1809
- oil on panel
- 28½in by 20½in
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 June 1986, lot 126, for £31,000.
Condition
The support consists of a single uncradled panel, which is perfectly flat and stable. The painting has fairly recently been cleaned and restored, and is in very good overall condition. The paint surface is well-preserved, with no major damages or apparent repair. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals very little restoration, confined almost entirely to local spot retouchings. The varnish remains glossy and even.
Offered in a later plain gilt wood frame in good condition.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Linthorst spent his entire career in Amsterdam, and is recorded there as a member of the Guild of Saint Luke from 1789 onwards. He was the teacher of the still life painter Jan Evert Morel (1769-1808). Comparatively little is known of his background or training, but his opulent and highly decorative style was clearly formed upon that of Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) and in particular his contemporary Jan van Os (1744-1808). A very similar but slightly larger work, also on panel and painted the previous year in 1808, in which a towering profusion of fruits and flowers is built up around a core of three peaches and bunches of grapes, is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.1 Another similar composition, painted a year later in 1810, was sold New York, Christie's, 23 January 2004, lot 35.
1. Inv. no. A 1077. Panel, 84 x 66 cm. P.J. van Thiel, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, A complete illustrated catalogue, Amsterdam 1976, p. 350, reproduced.
1. Inv. no. A 1077. Panel, 84 x 66 cm. P.J. van Thiel, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, A complete illustrated catalogue, Amsterdam 1976, p. 350, reproduced.