Lot 100: Hendrik Keun (Haarlem 1738-1788)

Hendrik Keun (Haarlem 1738-1788) >A view of the Plantage Middenlaan, Amsterdam, with the residence of 'Vlietsorg' to the left and the Muiderpoort in the distance<br>signed, dated and inscribed 'H. Keun 1776 VlietSorg Schoudijk' (lower left) >oil on panel (a single sheet of mahogany) <br>61.4 x 92.8 cm.

J. van der Meer Mohr 'Stadsgezichten door de eeuwen heen', in Origine, 14, 2006, nr. 4, pp. 33-4, ill.

Commissioned by George Hendrik Matthes (1709-1790), for his residence 'Vlietsorg', Amsterdam, in 1775-76; thence by descent; probably brought to the summer residence 'Queeckhoven', Breukelen by Joan Adam van Lankeren Matthes (1819-1905) in 1860, and thence by descent; brought to the house on the Oranje Nassaulaan, Amsterdam by Dirk van Lankeren Matthes (b. 1898) in 1911. >Purchased from the latter, together with the house on the Oranje Nassaulaan in Amsterdam, by the Grandfather of the present owners in 1921.