ATTRIBUTED TO LAURENS VINCENTSZ. VAN DER VINNE | STUDY OF THE WILDFLOWER GIANT ST. JOHN'S WORT (HYPERICUM ASCYRON)
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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ATTRIBUTED TO LAURENS VINCENTSZ. VAN DER VINNE
Haarlem 1658 - 1729
STUDY OF THE WILDFLOWER GIANT ST. JOHN'S WORT (HYPERICUM ASCYRON)
Watercolor over pencil, within brown ink framing lines;
inscribed and signed in pencil, verso: Hypericum ascyron Lin: / La Vd Vinne fecit,
and bears inscription in pencil, on old backing: St Jans Kruid (Fam)... L Van der Vinne and numberings: 10- / 720
289 by 383 mm; 11⅜ by 15⅛ in
Prof. Jhr. Dr. Jan Six van Hillegom en Wimmenum (1857-1926),
Jhr. ir. G.C. (Gijs) Six van Wimmenum (1892–1975), thence by decent to the present owners
From the mid 17th until the mid 19th century, the Van der Vinne family from Haarlem produced many successful artists, whose works - and even names - can sometimes be hard to distinguish. This accomplished natural history watercolour appears to be the work of Laurens Vincentsz. van der Vinne, by whom a signed and dated still life painting of 1721 was sold in Amsterdam.1 It could, though, also perhaps be by Laurens Jacobsz. van der Vinne (Haarlem 1712-1742), another member of the family who seems occasionally to have worked as a still-life painter.
1. Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 14 December 2010, lot 208