Lot 135: MAERTEN FRANSZ. VAN DER HULST LEIDEN CIRCA 1600 - AFTER 1645

MAERTEN FRANSZ. VAN DER HULST LEIDEN CIRCA 1600 - AFTER 1645

THE BEACH AT EGMOND

measurements note
48.6 by 71.5 cm.; 19 1/8 by 28 1/8 in.

signed and dated lower left: FMH (in compendium) VLFT. 1644

oil on oak panel

PROVENANCE

Sir Nicholas van Stochem;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 April 1962, lot 110, £1,260 to Dr. Herzig (as Jan van Goyen);
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1962-63, from whom bought by the Herwegs in June 1963.

LITERATURE

H.-U. Beck, 'Über Maerten Fransz. van der Hulft', in Nederlands kunsthistorisches Jaarboek, 1972, pp. 247ff, no. 10;
K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Bremen 1973, p. 73, reproduced;
L.J. Bol, Die holländische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Brunswick 1973, p. 133;
H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 164, no. 443, reproduced.

NOTE

This Leiden painter, strongly influenced by his townsman Jan van Goyen, had a very short career - dated paintings are only known between 1639 and 1646. Egmond, the subject of this picture, is on the North Sea coast a few miles west of Leiden.

Sold with the certificate of Dr. Walther Bernt, dated 27 July 1963.