Lot 40: Wouter Knijff , Wesel circa 1607 - after 1693 Bergen-op-Zoom (?) A river estuary with two fishermen in a rowing boat near a fortified town, sailing vessels beyond oil on panel

oil on panel

measurements note 47.2 by 63.5 cm.

H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 244, cat. no. A41.

With W. Paech, Amsterdam, circa 1943 (as Jan van Goyen);
With J. Ott, Zutphen, 1986;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 7 May 1992, lot 139.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
As Beck points out, Knijff repeated this composition, with slight differences and variations, on a number of occasions.υ1 The present work most closely resembles that in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (inv. no. os I-235).υ2

1. See Beck under Literature, pp. 237, 240, 243, cat. nos. 629-A8, 630-A9, 644-A23 and 655-A34.
2. See N. Köhler, Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850, The collection of the Frans Hals Museum, Ghent 2006, p. 528, cat. no. 260.