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Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
A view of an estuary with figures in a wijdschip and a rowing boat
Lot Closed
July 8, 02:04 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Schuybroek Collection
Jan Josefsz. van Goyen
Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague
A view of an estuary with figures in a wijdschip and a rowing boat
signed with monogram and dated on the hull of the rowing boat lower right: VG 1645
oil on oak panel
unframed: 37.6 x 61.6 cm.; 14⅞ x 24¼ in.
framed: 52.9 x 76.2 cm.; 20⅞ x 30 in.
Thence by descent to his daughter, Isabella (d. 1877), and her husband, John Howard Galton (1794-1862), Hadzor Hall, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, by 1850;
Thence by descent to their son, Theodore Howard Galton (1820-1881);
Thence by descent to his son, Hubert George Howard Galton (1854-1928);
His sale, London, Christie's, 22 June 1889, lot 28, for 80 Guineas to Colnaghi;
Charles Butler, London;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1894;
Baron d’Erlanger, Paris, from 1900 until after 1911;
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1929-31;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 26 November 1965, lot 124 (as dated 1655), to the Brod Gallery;
With Brod Gallery, London, 1966 (when advertised in Die Weltkunst, vol. XXXVI, 1966, p. 237);
Mr and Mrs Arthur Simon, London;
Private collection, Cologne (according to Beck, 1987);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 30 November 1979, lot 60, for £10,000, when acquired by Jean Schuybroek.
100 Paintings of Old Masters ... belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1894, p. 16, no. 12, reproduced;
Catalogue of the Baron d'Erlanger collection, Paris 1911, reproduced;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné ..., vol. VIII, London 1927, pp. 268 and 271-2, cat. nos 1069 and 1082;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, vol. II, Katalog der Gemälde, Amsterdam 1973, p. 385, cat. no. 860, reproduced;
H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, vol. III, Ergänzungen..., Doornspijk 1987, p. 242, cat. no. 860.
'A quiet sea; also a good picture' read the notes of the preeminent German art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen whose observations of this serene seascape are preserved in his 1854 volume TheTreasures of Art in Great Britain (see Literature). Waagen visited Hadzor Hall in 1850 at the invitation of Mr John Howard Galton and his wife Isabella. The Galtons had inherited a collection of mostly Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century paintings upon the death of her father, the collector, philanthropist, and Mayor of Derby, Joseph Strutt, in 1844.
Waagen noted this picture as hanging in the Drawing Room at Hadzor alongside the works of Teniers, Van Dyck, De Hooch and others. In the next-door room was Mrs Galton's Sitting Room in which, incidentally, hung the exceptional copper, The Banquet of The Gods by Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael, sold Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2019, and now displayed in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.