5648 - 5930
FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
(incl. drawings of Haarlem and surroundings from the collection A.M. van den Broek)
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
= Adriaan Terhell signed his works with 2 different pseudonyms: C. de Zeeuw and J. Le Blanc.
Idem. (A farmer's wife fastening a barge to a pole near a mill and a farm). Watercolour, 29x40 cm., signed "C. de Zeeuw" in lower left corner. - AND 6 others, i.a. Poppe DAMAVE, "Londen" (drawing, black crayon, signed and titled in lower left corner).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Sl. foxed; signature nibbled away by silverfish.
= Fine trompe l'oeil showing the Donderdagsche Courant No.34, two playing cards, a small drawing ("Dronke Teunis, met syn kameraet"), a leaf from an almanac for the month of July, two notes w. "P.(ieter) van Deventer/ Makelaar" and a quill. From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.
- Laid down on stiff paper; trifle foxed; one sm. tear in right margin.
= The portrait is adapted from the engraving by J. Houbraken after J.M. Quinkhard (drawn in an oval shape whereas the original is in a square) and signed "H: Hoffham Junior. Fecit 1750". Gerardus Kulenkamp was a German born preacher in Nieuw-Loosdrecht, Delft and Amsterdam. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
- Mediocre condition: folded three times and w. closed splits on folds (tape shining through on recto); yellowed; sl. creased and soiled in margins.
= Johann Peter Conrad Koch was probably a teacher in Kleef and married to Sybilla Hack. Their children married into Dutch families.
- Tipped onto contemp. thick paper mount.
= On paper showing a part of a large watermark of a knight. With attribution on mount.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Trifle foxed. = From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
- Laid down on board; several closed tears in margins.
Beck, Charles (1879-1971). (Farm on the heath). Watercolour, 26x39,5 cm., signed in lower left corner. - AND 8 others, all but one anonymous 19th/ early 20th cent. drawings, i.a. Willem Jilts POL, "Bayona" (drawing, watercolour and pen and ink, signed "Pol", titled and dated "32" in lower left corner. Laid down).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso; sold in auction Mak, Dordrecht, March 1983 (lot 130). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXX.
- Slightly yellowed/ foxed.
AND a drawing of ships near the shore (pen and watercolour, 19th cent., laid down on cardboard).
= Ticket of B. Houthakker on verso of frame and w. mounted catalogue entry. From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on contemporary mount. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
= With a monogram "EM" on verso.
= With a later 19th century annotation on mount: "De groote kerk te Haarlem, gezien uit den tuin van den heer Steevens. geteekend door Agn. Vrolik, bij dier Heer op School zijnde, waarschijnlijk in 1824". Agnites Vrolik was an amateur artist, who later became the Dutch minister of Finance and one of the founders of the 'Staatsspoorwegen' (national railway company). Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Vague brown stain in upper left corner.
= Cf. T. Laurentius, Een kabinet van Haarlemse gezichten (Alphen a/d Rijn, 1968), p.21. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Yellowed and sl. foxed; sm. tear in top margin; vague horizontal fold in centre.