Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger

Dr. J den Hartogh, Zeist,
from whom purchased in 1959 by Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), Amsterdam/Amerongen (L.2799a),
his sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 November 1992, lot 148;
sale, London, Sotheby's, Quality in Detail: The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection, 24 March 2021, lot 20

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Nederlandse Tekeningen uit drie Eeuwen, 1978, no. 77;
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Braunschweig, Städtisches Museum, and Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Meisterzeichnungen aus drei Jahrhundreten, Niederländische Handzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1979-80, no. 94

Though born in Antwerp, Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger spent almost all of his artistic career in Amsterdam, where his Calvinist family moved when he was very young.  His brother, Willem van Nieulandt the Younger (1584-1635), was a significant painter of Italianate landscapes, as was his uncle, Willem van Nieulandt the Elder (1560-1626).  The attribution of this atmospheric rocky landscape was first suggested by Peter Schatborn. A similarly executed landscape by Adriaen van Nieulandt, signed and dated 1649, is in the Leiden University Printroom, and another is in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam.¹

1. W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1980, no. 444; G. Jansen and G. Luijten, Italianisanten en Bamboccianten, exh. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen 1988, pp. 100-101, no. 60