AERT JANSZ. MARIENHOF | RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES ON A PATH AND CROSSING A BRIDGE

Marienhof is known as a history painter, and landscapes such as this are extremely rare. Most of his pictures were painted in Utrecht before 1650, by which year, according to Houbraken, he had moved to Brussels. The present picture, one of his latest works, shows the influence of Brussels School landscapists such as Lodewijk de Vadder and Jacques d'Arthois, particularly in the handling of the bank to the left of the composition. A similar landscape, also signed and dated 1652, was sold London, Christie's, 13 December 1991, lot 201.