Ludolf Bakhuizen* (1631-1708)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Details

Ludolf Bakhuizen* (1631-1708)

A Smalschip under full sail and Men-of-War at anchor in a Dutch harbor
signed 'LUD:BAC'--oil on canvas
17¾ x 23 1/8in. (45 x 58.8cm.)

Provenance

Sir Herbert Cook, Bt., Doughty House, Richmond, Sussex (purchased for 70gns.), and by descent to
Sir Herbert Cook, Bt.
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, 1946.

Literature

J.O. Kronig, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & Elsewhere with the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt., 1914, II, p. 4, no. 205.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc. VII, 1923, p. 276, no. 266.
M. Brockwell, Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey in the collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart, 1932, p. 37, no. 205.

Lot Essay

When the painting was in the Cook Collection, it was assumed, probably correctly, to depict the IJ in Amsterdam. With the immediate foreground in shadow, large vessels to the left and a smaller one to the right moving in profile before a point of land, this composition employs one of Bakhuizen's favored designs for both paintings (see also the painting sold at Lepke, Berlin, March 29, 1927, lot 109) and drawings (see the View of Shipping on the IJ, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Ludolf Bakhuizen, Emden, Kunsthalle, 1985, illustrated).