The Rafael Valls Sale, Part II

The Rafael Valls Sale, Part II

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Jan Looten

Elegant figures walking by a fountain in a woodland park

Lot Closed

December 16, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jan Looten

Amsterdam 1618 - circa 1681 London

Elegant figures walking by a fountain in a woodland park


oil on canvas, with an unidentified collector's red wax seal on the reverse

unframed: 71 x 82.3 cm.; 28 x 32⅜ in.;

framed: 93.8 x 105.4 cm.; 37 x 41½ in.

Private collection, Ireland.

Jan Looten began his career in Amsterdam but he was much influenced by the earthy compositions of the Haarlem landscape painter, Jacob van Ruisdael. By around 1662, Looten was in England, where he worked in London and later, in York. A pair of landscapes attributed to Jan Looten, which date to c. 1675, were recorded at Windsor during the reign of King James II and remain in the Royal Collection.1


1 https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/401200/landscape-with-an-estuary;

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/4/collection/401202/a-wooded-landscape