Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 134. View of the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee.

Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten

View of the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee

Lot Closed

December 9, 02:35 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten

Amsterdam 1622 - 1666

View of the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee


oil on oak panel

unframed: 89.6 x 134.8 cm.; 35¼ x 53⅛ in.

framed: 112.1 x 156.9 cm.; 44⅛ x 61¾ in.

John Entwisle (1856–1945), Kilworth House, Leicestershire;
Thence by inheritance to his second wife, Florence A. Entwisle, Kilworth House, Leicestershire;
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 27 March 1953, lot 73 (as signed and dated: 1653), for £220 to Drown;
William R. Drown, London.

Beerstraten depicted the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee on several occasions, usually from the other side of the Sint Agnes church, for example in the work today in the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.1 The tower of Sint Agnes was the only part of the church to remain standing in the town after Egmond-aan-Zee was sacked and burned by pirates in 1571. It was later demolished following a storm in 1741, and today this entire view lies underwater, more than 200 metres off the Dutch shoreline.


Egmond-aan-Zee was a very popular subject for a great many Dutch landscapists active in the middle of the seventeenth century, including Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael (see lot 12, Evening Sale, 8 December 2021). Jacob van Ruisdael’s late masterpiece The Shore at Egmond-aan-Zee (National Gallery, London) is painted from almost exactly the same vantage point as the present work.2


1 Inv. no. 506; https://rkd.nl/explore/images/12638

2 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jacob-van-ruisdael-the-shore-at-egmond-aan-zee