Lot 63: Cornelis Claesz. van Wieringen (Haarlem circa 1580-1633)

A seaport with a man o'war, figures along a pier
with inscription 'Cornelis Claesz. Van Wieringen' (verso)
pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing lines, watermark Strasburg lily WR
5 x 7 5/8 in. (124 x 195 mm.)

We are grateful to Dr George Keyes for confirming the attribution to Wieringen on the basis of a color photograph (written communication of 14 November 2005). The lively penwork of the present drawing is close to a that of a similar subject in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (see G.S. Keyes, Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, Minneapolis, 1990, no. 95).