JAN COELENBIER | River landscape with a windmill, a port building, and sailing vessels

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1967;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 11 April 1975, lot 71 (as Wouter Knyff);

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

Willem, Baron van Dedem (d. 2015), Zeist, 1976;

Carl Schünemann, Bremen, from whom acquired in 1976.

H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 64, cat. no. 106, reproduced in colour, p. 59, plate IX;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 50-53, cat. no. 7, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 82, cat. no. 72, reproduced in colour.

Jan Coelenbier was a follower of Jan van Goyen. He was active for much of his career in Haarlem, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1632, and his output consisted primarily of river landscapes inspired by van Goyen and occasionally by Salomon van Ruysdael. In the present view, a quiet river landscape expands beneath a clear sky with billowing clouds. This landscape can likely be dated between 1642-51, a period from which a number of signed and dated paintings by Coelenbier are known.