Jan de Beyer (1703-1780)

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Jan de Beyer (1703-1780)

A View of the Nieuwe Brug on the Damrak, Amsterdam, the Texelse Kade to the right, the Tower of the Oude Kerk to the left

signed with monogram and dated 'JDB:1729'; pencil, pen and grey ink, grey and brown wash, grey ink framing lines, watermark I VILLEDARY, framed
261 x 345 mm.

Provenance

The Leonhardt Family Collection, by descent to Mrs. G.E.A.M. Leonhardt-Pilz von Wernhof; Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 November 1989, lot 177

Literature

H. Romers, J. de Beijer Oeuvre-Catalogus, The Hague, 1969, no. 1008

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Jan de Beijer en Amsterdam 1703-1785, 1953, no. 16

Engraved

Anonymous, for J. Wagenaar, Amsterdam in zijn opkomst, aanwas, geschiedenissen...., Amsterdam, 1765, II, p. 70-1, an impression is sold with the drawing

Lot Essay

A watercolour of the same view by De Beijer is in the Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, (B. Bakker, Amsterdam in the achttiende eeuw, Delft, 1974, no. 23, illustrated). The building to the right is the celebrated Huis met het Torentje, demolished in 1889 to be replaced by the present Victoria Hotel. This drawing was made from the harbour, where now on an artificial island stands the Centraal Station

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