A dutch diamond-engraved glass rectangular maritime panel

1774, SIGNED BY LEONARD VENROY

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A dutch diamond-engraved glass rectangular maritime panel
1774, signed by Leonard Venroy
Engraved with a galleon with full blown sails and flying pennants on a wavy sea above the inscription Leonard Venroy fecit 1774 (the edge with tiny chips)
12.5x23.5cm.

Provenance

Collection Harts Nijstad, Lochem, The Netherlands

Literature

Thieme-Becker, part 34, p. 215
Immerzeel 1842, p. 166
Kramm 1861, part 5, p. 1700, read the mention of C.J. de Lange van Wijngaerde
Scheen 1970, part 2
Wurzbach 1910, part 2, p. 760

Lot Essay

Leonardus Venroy was born in Gouda and baptized on the 15th of November, 1734. He worked there and was a wine merchant and a municipal counsellor. He died on the 19th of May 1808. Venroy was well-to-do. He was very skilled in de pennekunst. And he not only copied engravings but other works of art as well.
He depicted King Willem I and his Queen.

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