Jan van de Cappelle* (1624-1679)

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Jan van de Cappelle* (1624-1679)

A rowing Boat with thirteen Passengers approaching Smalschips, Kaags and Yachts sailing in calm Waters in an Estuary

signed with initials 'J.V.C.'--oil on canvas
20 x 25¼in. (50.8 x 64.2cm.)

Provenance

Possibly the Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, whose pictures were inherited by his nephew the Hon. James Stuart (2nd son of the 3rd Earl of Bute, ancestor of the Earl of Wharncliffe).
Lord Wharncliffe, Wortley Hall, Sheffield.
W.A. Hankey, Beaulieu, Hastings.
with C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1900, exhibition catalogue of the Sixth Hundred Paintings, no. 6.
with Edward Speelman, London, 1951.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 3, 1969, lot 5 (£19,000 to Gaunt).

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc..., VII, 1976, p. 189, no. 121.
M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, 1975, p. 78, no. 121, fig. 85.

Exhibited

London, Slatter Gallery, 1948, no. 12.

Lot Essay

With its central avenue of vessels, calm sea and atmospheric effects this composition may be compared to Jan van de Cappelle's coastal view in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid (acc. no. 1964.11; I. Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, 1989, no. 71, no. 71; Russell, op. cit., fig. 80).

We are grateful to Margarita Russell for reconfirming the attribution having examined the painting in the original.