Jan van de Cappelle

Lot 15. Jan van de Cappelle (1624 - 1679), A calm sea, signed with monogram lower left: IVC, oil on oak panel backed with another panel, 45.5 x 65.5 cm.; 17 3/4  x 25 3/4  in. Estimate 1,000,000 — 1,500,000 GBP. Lot sold 2,050,000 GBP. © Sotheby's. Provenance: Sir Joseph B. Robinson, Bt, (1840–1929), Dudley House, Park Lane, London; His sale, Christie's London, 6 July 1923, lot 50, where bought back by the owner; His daughter, Ida, who... [Lire la suite]

Embarkation of Spanish Troops. Andries van Eertvelt. Oil on canvas. 1493 x 2324mm ©  National Maritime  Museum, Greenwich, UK. The Peabody Essex Museum presents The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes, 70 works by Dutch masters of maritime art working in the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Painted during the peak years of Dutch artistic achievement between 1600 and 1700, these superlative, emotional works are the first in which European artists realistically depicted natural settings, rendering coastal atmospheres with... [Lire la suite]