Adam Pynacker

William Baillie (1723-1810), by 1773;

Robert Heathcote (1775-1823)

His sale, London, Phillips, 11 April 1807, lot 33 (as Europa Point, Gibraltar);

Where acquired by Gallery Phillips and Foreman, London, for 72 guineas;

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1797-1864), Novar;

Thence by descent until sold ("The Novar Collection"), London, Christie's, 1 June 1878, lot 79;

Where acquired by Christopher Beckett Denison (1825-1884), for £472-10s;

His estate sale, London, Christie's, 6 June 1885, lot 68;

Where acquired by "Berkeley," for £160;

With Galería Müller, Buenos Aires;

María Teresa Becú

 de Ayerza, Buenos Aires;

By whom sold, Buenos Aires, Posadas Remates, 1 December 1987, lot 6;

Private collection, Argentina;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 3 June 1988, lot 53;

Where acquired by David Paul, New York, 1989;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. VI, London 1835, p. 299, cat. no. 50;

G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 139;

G. Redford, Art Sales, 1628-1887, London 1888, p. 315 (as Europa Point, Gibraltar);

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. IX, London 1926, p. 532, cat. no. 43;

L.B. Harwood, Adam Pynacker (c. 1620-1673), Doornspijk 1988, pp. 71-72, cat. no. 46A, reproduced pls. XI, 46A;

F. Duparc and L. Graif, Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, Montreal 1990, pp. 152-153, cat. no. 46, reproduced;

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 79;

A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 75-77, cat. no. 15, reproduced.

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John Pye, Europa Point, Gibraltar, published by Boydell, 18 September 1773.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Italian Recollections: Dutch Painters of the Golden Age, 8 June - 22 July 1990, no. 46;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 15.