Abraham Rademaker (1675-1735)

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Abraham Rademaker (1675-1735)

The House Kostverloren on the River Amstel, near Amsterdam

signed 'Rademaker Fecit' and inscribed 'Het Huis Kostverloren aan den Amstel, A^o 1630' on the mount; pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash
168 x 257 mm.

Provenance

C. Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg; G.Th. Bom, Amsterdam, 27 February 1951, lot 149 (Fl. 50 to Beyers)

Engraved

By the artist, reduced in size, for Kabinet van Nederlandsche Outheden en Gezichten, Amsterdam, 1725, I, no. 1

Lot Essay

Kostverloren was first mentioned in circa 1500 and demolished in 1822, and no trace of it remains today. Seymour Slive recently discussed the depiction of the manor in art history, The Manor Kostverloren: Vicissitudes of a Seventeenth Century Dutch landscape motif, in The Age of Rembrandt, Studies in Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting, Pennsylvania, 1988, II, 6, pp. 133-68

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