Church interior with an elegant couple

The present lot once formed part of the well-known Drucker-Fraser collection which was lovingly brought together by Charles Drucker (1862-1944) and his wife Maria Lydia Drucker-Fraser (died 1944). Mr Drucker primarily bought work by Hague School artists, and because of this the present lot may be considered to be a rare example of Dutch Romanticism to have been a part of the collection. From 1903 onwards, the couple entrusted parts of their collection to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and, following their deaths in 1944, the collection was bequeathed to the Rijksmuseum in its entirety.