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JACOBUS NICOLAS BARON TJARDA VAN STARKENBORGH | Boy Fishing in a Westphalian Landscape
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Jacobus Nicolas Baron Tjarda van Starkenborgh
- Boy Fishing in a Westphalian Landscape
- signed Tjarda van Starkenborgh and inscribed Duss (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 39 1/2 by 61 3/8 in.
- 100.3 by 155.9 cm
Condition
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This large canvas is lined. It has a discolored varnish. There are large discolored restorations throughout the sky addressing breaks in the canvas. There are also a number of raised old restorations in the sky and these areas would require structural restoration. The trees and landscape seem to be healthy. There are a few small restorations along the bottom edge.
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Catalogue Note
Jacobus Nicolas Baron Tjarda van Starkenborgh, born in Holland, was a painter of landscapes and marine scenes. The artist visited America in the early 1850s and painted in the Catskills and West Virginia, though he was primarily based in Philadelphia. In 1852 he moved to Düsseldorf but continued to exhibit internationally, including in Austria, Pennsylvania, and The Netherlands.