Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Nicolaes Aartman
Two coastal scenes with shipping
Lot Closed
March 24, 04:12 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Nicolaes Aartman
Amsterdam 1713 - 1760
Two coastal scenes with shipping
Both grey wash over black chalk within pen and grey ink framing lines;
both signed in pen and grey ink, lower right A: fec
unframed: each 119 by 195 mm
framed: each 270 by 350 mm
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Bears unidentified collector's mark (initials J.A.H., stamped in blue ink, verso), the mark not in Lugt, but the same initials, handwritten are listed as L.1409. It has been suggested that these are the initials of John Audley Harvey, whose drawings collection was sold, London, Christie's, 3 May 1912, and this reference is also written on the back of the frame of one of the present pair of drawings.