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Lot Essay
For a similar signed work, dated 1690, see Sotheby's sale, London, Thursday, 14 December 2000, lot 123 (sold £35,000).
The artist was a late representative of the Haarlem School of landscape painters. His oeuvre consisting mainly of river landscapes that employed the device of a receeding diagonal riverbank, a motif invented by Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Here that motif is used and balanced by the left bank and crowded riverfront, full of boats teeming with action. He is perhaps best known for his winter scenes which were strongly influenced by the work of the slightly earlier Haarlem landscape painter, Claes Molenaer.
See front cover illustration for detail
The artist was a late representative of the Haarlem School of landscape painters. His oeuvre consisting mainly of river landscapes that employed the device of a receeding diagonal riverbank, a motif invented by Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Here that motif is used and balanced by the left bank and crowded riverfront, full of boats teeming with action. He is perhaps best known for his winter scenes which were strongly influenced by the work of the slightly earlier Haarlem landscape painter, Claes Molenaer.
See front cover illustration for detail