Lot 91: JAN PEETERS I (ANTWERP 1624-CIRCA 1677) Spanish and English galleons fou

JAN PEETERS I (ANTWERP 1624-CIRCA 1677) Spanish and English galleons foundering in stormy waters with figures watching on from a rocky coastline with a Spanish fortress beyond signed ‘I . Peeters’ (on rock, lower right) oil on canvas 58.7 x 86.2cm (23 1/8 x 33 15/16in).

Provenance Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 18-21 September 1973, lot 98 (as Bonaventura Peeters) Sale, Hampel, Munich, 25-26 March 2011, lot 160 (as Bonaventura Peeters) Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 15 March 2017, lot 65 (as Attributed to Jan Peeters I) The initial ‘I’ on the present work appears to have been changed to ‘B’ at a later date to make it appear to be by Bonaventura Peeters. The attribution to Jan Peeters I was confirmed in 2015 by Laurens Schoemaker of the RKD (see their image no. 269136.). 92 WYBRAND SIMONSZ. DE GEEST (LEEUWARDEN 1592-1659) Portrait of a girl, full-length, in a white dress, holding a basket of flowers signed and dated ‘v. de Geest 163 ’ (lower right) oil on panel 112.2 x 77.8cm (44 3/16 x 30 5/8in).