Lot Essay
The present series is typical of the consistent idiom of Arcadian landscape painting evolved by Jurriaan Andriessen for his decorative wall paintings, hangings and wallpaper. With Izaac Schmidt, he founded a wallpaper factory in Antwerp, and ran an enormous shop providing decorative Arcadian and idealised Italian landscape motifs with staffage. His work was immensely popular, especially abroad (see T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Een Amsterdamse Zaal met wandschilderingen van Juriaan Andriessen, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 1, 1953, pp. 19-24, nos. 1-2; and Catalogue of the exhibition, Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings 1700-1800, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 1971 - Mar. 1972, p. 24).
The present works demonstrate Andriessen's clear debt to artists such as Isaac de Moucheron and Dirk Dalens, and exhibit his tendency towards a more airy, overtly classical style with ruins in the Italianate manner scattered through peculiarly open Dutch landscapes. The present works may be compared in particular with the series of five wall decorations, signed and dated 1805, which appeared at the Weckherlin sale at Muller, Amsterdam, 26 Nov. 1912, lot 5, and similar sets sold by Muller, Amsterdam, 28 Nov.-1 Dec. 1916, lots 989 (nine panels) and 990 (seven panels). More recently a comparable series of four classical landscapes, probably by Andriessen, from the collection of Louisa, Lady Ashburnton, appeared in these Rooms attributed to Jean-Baptiste Huet, 7 July 1978, lots 132-5.
Drawings by the artist exhibiting similar stylistic and formal concerns are in the University of Leyden (J.Bolten, Dessins anciens du Cabinet des Dessins et des Estampes de l'Université de Leyde, The Hague-Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 28-9, nos. 5a-c, illustrated).
The present works demonstrate Andriessen's clear debt to artists such as Isaac de Moucheron and Dirk Dalens, and exhibit his tendency towards a more airy, overtly classical style with ruins in the Italianate manner scattered through peculiarly open Dutch landscapes. The present works may be compared in particular with the series of five wall decorations, signed and dated 1805, which appeared at the Weckherlin sale at Muller, Amsterdam, 26 Nov. 1912, lot 5, and similar sets sold by Muller, Amsterdam, 28 Nov.-1 Dec. 1916, lots 989 (nine panels) and 990 (seven panels). More recently a comparable series of four classical landscapes, probably by Andriessen, from the collection of Louisa, Lady Ashburnton, appeared in these Rooms attributed to Jean-Baptiste Huet, 7 July 1978, lots 132-5.
Drawings by the artist exhibiting similar stylistic and formal concerns are in the University of Leyden (J.Bolten, Dessins anciens du Cabinet des Dessins et des Estampes de l'Université de Leyde, The Hague-Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 28-9, nos. 5a-c, illustrated).