Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

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Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Lieve Pietersz. Verschuier

The whaler 'Prins Willem' on the Nieuwe Maas near Rotterdam

Auction Closed

January 26, 04:01 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Lieve Pietersz. Verschuier

Rotterdam 1627 - 1686

The whaler 'Prins Willem' on the Nieuwe Maas near Rotterdam


signed lower center on boat:  L. verschvier

oil on canvas

canvas: 39 by 57 in.; 99.1 by 144.8 cm.

framed: 46⅛ by 64⅜ in.; 117.2 by 163.5 cm.

Please refer to the online catalogue for additional literature on this lot.

Anonymous sale ("Property of a Gentleman, deceased"), London, Christie’s, 1 June 1861, lot 21 (as Verschuring, bought by Graves for 15 gns.);

William Dickinson (1802-1880);

His Trustees sale, London, Christie’s, 5 December 1919, lot 149, although withdrawn from that sale;

Thence by descent in the Dickinson family;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby’s, 20 April 1988, lot 70;

There acquired by Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, 1988;

From whom acquired.

P. Dekker and R. Eggink, De walvisvaarder Prins Willem op de Nieuwe Maas bij Rotterdam, Amsterdam 1989, passim;

Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge and New York 1991, pp. 182-184, cat. no. 44, reproduced;

Rotterdamse meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2004, pp. 91-92, reproduced fig. 14;

A. Hoving and C. Emke, The Ships of Abel Tasman, Hilversum 2000, p. 36, detail of the whaler Prins Willem reproduced;

J. Giltaij,  “Lieve Verschuier (1627-1686), Een Rotterdamse scheepsbeeldhouwer en schilder” in Schatkamer, Veertien opstellen over maritiem-historische onderwerpen aangeboden aan Leo M. Akveld, Rotterdam 2002, cat. no. 20. 

Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, 23 December 1990 - 11 August 1991, no. 44.