Wybrand Hendriks

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

Wybrand Hendriks
A landscape with travellers, a blasted tree in the foreground
Watercolour and gouache, within brown ink framing lines;
signed, verso: Wynands, Pinxt / Hendriks, Fecit. and bears inscription on an album sheet: N 7 87.-

Provenance

C. Ploos van Amstel (L.3003), his inscription, verso: hoog 9 d / breed 10¾ d.

Catalogue Note

Hendriks was a successful painter of wall-hangings in Amsterdam, before moving to Haarlem in 1776. There he specialised in still-lifes and copies, such as this, after 17th-century paintings (see also lots 87, 199 and 201). A leading figure in the artistic life of Haarlem, Hendriks was a Director of the Haarlem Drawing Academy and the Haarlem Teekencollegie, and also, from 1785 until 1820, the keeper of the art collections of the Teyler Museum, where he played an important part in the enlarging of the original art collections.