Attributed to John Greenwood (1727-1792)

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Attributed to John Greenwood (1727-1792)

A View of the Woodsawing Mills at the Zaan, the City of Zaandam beyond

signed and inscribed (?) 'gezigt op Sandam/dr. Greenwood' (verso); pencil, black chalk, grey wash, pencil framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily
251 x 353 mm.; and a drawing of shipping by a pier by Jan Rood, 159 x 279 mm. (2)

Provenance

(1) with S. Emmering, Amsterdam, 1956
(2) Private collection, Amsterdam, 1972

Exhibited

(1) Arnhem, 1956, no. 44 (as J. Greenwood)
(1) Fribourg/Passau/Trier/Aachen/Nuremberg, 1982/4, no. 36 (as J. Greenwood)

Lot Essay

(1) The artist was born in Boston, worked in Surinam and Holland until 1763, after that he went to Paris and London, and died in Margate, England. An attribution to Frans Greenwood (1680-1763) has also been suggested

See illustrations on p.

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