ATTRIBUTED TO HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT | Italianate coastal scene with figures on the bank

Dr. Anne Charlotte Steland notes stylistic similarities between the present work and two signed paintings by Swanevelt, one dated 1649 (private collection, USA), the other 1646 (sold Vienna, Dorotheum, 24 June – 2 July 1986, lot 706).(1)

1 Written correspondence, 19 December 2017; see A.C. Steland, Herman van Swanevelt, Petersberg 2010, text volume, pp. 58, 60 and 149–51, cat. nos G 1,48 and G 1,51; plates volume, reproduced in colour figs G 151 and G 139, respectively.