Old Master and British Works on Paper Including drawings from the Oppé Collection

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Lot 288
  • 288

Izaak Schmidt

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Izaak Schmidt
  • Four Landscapes: Three of Village Scenes, One of Peasants by a Sluice
  • Each pen and brown ink and watercolour, within black ink framing lines;
    three indistinctly signed in pen and brown ink on the recto;
    all signed in pen and grey ink, and one dated 1779, on the verso

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2011, lot 90

Catalogue Note

Schmidt was a man of many accomplishments: a writer on art, a playwright, a designer of tapestries and a portrait painter.  However, he was most successful as a landscape artist.