Ludolf Bakhuizen (1631-1708)

The Property of SIR EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD

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Ludolf Bakhuizen (1631-1708)

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee

signed and dated 'L.BAKH. 1695.'
23 x 28½in. (58.3 x 72.5cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Zomer, Amsterdam, 28 March 1708, lot 30 (13 florins)
Anon. Sale, de Winter, Amsterdam, 8 June 1763, lot 31 (200 florins to H. Quinkhart)
Pieter Locquet; (+) sale, van der Schley and Yver, Amsterdam, 22 Sept. 1783, lot 7 (325 florins to Ploos van Amstel)
Jonkheer Willem van Loon (1794-1847), Amsterdam, by 1835
His widow, Jonkvrouw Anna Louisa Agatha van Winter (1793-1877), after whose death the collection was sold en bloc by her nine surviving children in 1878 to Baron Lionel de Rothschild, who intended to divide it between his three sons but housed the present picture at The Baron's Room, 148 Piccadilly until his death the following year
His son, Leopold de Rothschild, Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex and by descent to the present owner

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, London, 1835, p. 446, no. 135, described as an 'excellent picture' and as dated 1692
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VII, London, 1923, p. 215, no. 6

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 17th Century Art in Europe, 3 Jan.-12 March 1938, no. 206

Lot Essay

The present picture would seem to have been inspired by Rembrandt's painting of 1633 formerly in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; that picture was in Bakhuizen's time in the collection of the Sheriff and Burgomaster of Amsterdam, Jacob Jacobsz. Hinloopen (1644-1705)

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