Property from a Distinguished East Coast Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Aernout Smit
A Dutch ship in choppy seas, with ships beyond
Sans prix de réserve
Vente aux enchères clôturée
May 22, 04:37 PM GMT
Estimation
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Description du lot
Description
Property from a Distinguished East Coast Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Aernout Smit
Amsterdam 1640 - 1710
A Dutch ship in choppy seas, with ships beyond
signed lower center on the post: A. [de?]. SMIT
oil on panel
panel: 11 ⅛ by 14 ¼ in.; 28.5 by 36.2 cm. (with additions on the left and right sides measuring ¼ in.; 0.6 cm.)
framed: 18 ¼ by 21 ¾ in.; 46.3 by 55.3 cm.
Little is known of the life of the maritime painter Aernout Smit. Arnold Houbraken lists him as training under Jan Theunisz. Blanckerhoff (1628-1669), who was active in Amsterdam between 1659 and 1666, though Smit's style is more often associated with Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708), the leading marine painter in Amsterdam in the 1660s. Smit is recorded as living and working in Amsterdam in 1667, though the first time his name appears on the St Luke’s Guild there is in 1688.
A painting by Smit of two ships in a stormy sea in the Kremer Collection is similarly signed on a piece of driftwood.1
1 See https://thekremercollection.com/paintings/aernout-smit-ships-on-a-stormy-sea/