Lot 572: Engel Hoogerheyden (Middelburg 1740-1809)

Dutch shipping in light breezes off Vlissingen both signed with monogram and dated 'E..H...1807' (lower left) oil on panel 7 x 93/4 in. (17.8 x 24.8 cm.) a pair (2) PROVENANCE With Robert Noortman, Maastricht, 1991, acquired by Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. A-77). NOTES Hoogerheyden was himself a sailor, before becoming a respected Dutch marine artist of the second half of the eighteenth and first years of the nineteenth centuries. He spent most of his life in Middelburg, the provincial capital of Zeeland, and many of his works depict harbour scenes of the region around that city. He is known on occasion to have collaborated with the Dutch artist J. Schwartzenbach and a picture of theirs is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.