View of a Town with a Market near a Church

This is closely comparable to Karsen's picture, sold, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 25 May 1971, lot 333 (A.M. Hammacher, Eduard Karsen en zijn vader Kaspar, The Hague, 1947, p. 10a). Karsen worked mainly in Amsterdam, where he was a pupil of his uncle G.P. Westenberg and of H.G. ten Cate (see lots 266 and 43 in this sale). He travelled to Germany in 1837, and later to Prague, views of which he incorporated into his imaginary townscapes. Karsen trained J.F. Hulk the elder and C. Springer