Popperoeden-Ambacht was owned by Daniel Radermacher, and in the years 1771-6 Arends made a series of eleven watercolours of the house and its gardens, one of which, also dated 1772, shows the same view as the present lot. One of the drawings is in the Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg (H. Besselaar, Een Kabinet van Zeeuwsche Gezichten, Bussum, 1971, pl. 76). Arends specialised in views of country houses and their gardens on Walcheren when living in Middelburg between circa 1770 and 1785. In 1780 he published a print of Sint Jan ten Heere with a subscription announcement for a series of prints after his drawings made on Walcheren, which was however never realised. Jhr. Dr. H.M.W. van der Wyck will include the present lot in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work