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Division IL—Drawings and Sketches.
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445. Rood-screen at St. Jan’s Keerke at ’s Hertogenbusch
(Bois-le-Duc).
Dated in the artist’s handwriting, ‘>1632 de 3 July’, and inscribed by him
in another place, ‘Bit ist het Icostelycke Ockzael van de St. Jans Kerlt in
s’ Hartogen bos’; i.e. ‘This is the splendid rood-screen of St. John’s
Church at Bois-le-Duc.’ The master-piece of Low-Country Renaissance
architecture and sculpture, depicted by Saenredam in this interesting
drawing, was acquired some years ago for the South Kensington Museum
(B.M.).
In the two drawings which follow by Jan van der Heyden, the most skilful and
most celebrated of all the architectural painters of Holland, we find that artist
giving pictorial representation to his ideas and experiences in regard to fires and
fire-extinguishing apparatus: a subject in which he took a practical and
scientific as well as an artistic interest.
Jan van der HEYDEN.
Architectural painter: Dutch School: b. 1637, d. 1712: worked chiefly at
A^?erdam : travelled also in Belgium, Holland, and England.
44^Burning of a sugar-bakery at Amsterdam, Dec. 29, 1669.
Pen and sepia and indian-ink wash, slightly touched with red chalk.
This drawing was engraved as Plate V. of Van der Hey den’s work on Fire
Engines entitled ‘Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geoctro-
jeerde Slang-brand-spuiten en haare wisze van brand-blussen etc.,’ first
published in 1690 (B.M.).
447. A Fire by night, with Fire-engines, &c., at work.
Pen and sepia with indian-ink wash.
The scene represented in this second drawing of fire-extinction has not at
present been identified (M. 706).
Gerrit BERCK-HEYDE.
Painter of architecture and street scenes: b. 1638, d. 1698 : pupil of Frans
Hals: worked at Haarlem, also visited the Rhine and Heidelberg.
448. Interior of a Protestant Church.
Drawn with the brush in indian-ink.
From the Verstolk and Leembruggen collections.
Work of very fine quality: unsigned: the traditional ascription to Berck-
Heyde may be correct, but the choice of subject and mode of treatment
rather suggests De Witte (M. 659).
William van de VELDE II.
Marine painter: Dutch School: b. 1633, d. 1707: pupil of his father W. van
de Velde I. and of Simon de Vlieger: worked first at Amsterdam, and
after 1677 (when he was made court painter to Charles II.) in England,
chiefly,at Greenwich.
449. (a>*lSea-piece: vessels in a calm.
Sea-piece: vessels in a breeze.
(a) Indian-ink.
From the Muller and Leembruggen collections.
(b) Pen and sepia, with indian-ink wash.
From the Verstolk collection.
Examples of the finest quality: both signed with the initials W. V. V ;
may possibly be the work of the elder rather than the younger Van de
Velde (M. 861, 860).
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445. Rood-screen at St. Jan’s Keerke at ’s Hertogenbusch
(Bois-le-Duc).
Dated in the artist’s handwriting, ‘>1632 de 3 July’, and inscribed by him
in another place, ‘Bit ist het Icostelycke Ockzael van de St. Jans Kerlt in
s’ Hartogen bos’; i.e. ‘This is the splendid rood-screen of St. John’s
Church at Bois-le-Duc.’ The master-piece of Low-Country Renaissance
architecture and sculpture, depicted by Saenredam in this interesting
drawing, was acquired some years ago for the South Kensington Museum
(B.M.).
In the two drawings which follow by Jan van der Heyden, the most skilful and
most celebrated of all the architectural painters of Holland, we find that artist
giving pictorial representation to his ideas and experiences in regard to fires and
fire-extinguishing apparatus: a subject in which he took a practical and
scientific as well as an artistic interest.
Jan van der HEYDEN.
Architectural painter: Dutch School: b. 1637, d. 1712: worked chiefly at
A^?erdam : travelled also in Belgium, Holland, and England.
44^Burning of a sugar-bakery at Amsterdam, Dec. 29, 1669.
Pen and sepia and indian-ink wash, slightly touched with red chalk.
This drawing was engraved as Plate V. of Van der Hey den’s work on Fire
Engines entitled ‘Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geoctro-
jeerde Slang-brand-spuiten en haare wisze van brand-blussen etc.,’ first
published in 1690 (B.M.).
447. A Fire by night, with Fire-engines, &c., at work.
Pen and sepia with indian-ink wash.
The scene represented in this second drawing of fire-extinction has not at
present been identified (M. 706).
Gerrit BERCK-HEYDE.
Painter of architecture and street scenes: b. 1638, d. 1698 : pupil of Frans
Hals: worked at Haarlem, also visited the Rhine and Heidelberg.
448. Interior of a Protestant Church.
Drawn with the brush in indian-ink.
From the Verstolk and Leembruggen collections.
Work of very fine quality: unsigned: the traditional ascription to Berck-
Heyde may be correct, but the choice of subject and mode of treatment
rather suggests De Witte (M. 659).
William van de VELDE II.
Marine painter: Dutch School: b. 1633, d. 1707: pupil of his father W. van
de Velde I. and of Simon de Vlieger: worked first at Amsterdam, and
after 1677 (when he was made court painter to Charles II.) in England,
chiefly,at Greenwich.
449. (a>*lSea-piece: vessels in a calm.
Sea-piece: vessels in a breeze.
(a) Indian-ink.
From the Muller and Leembruggen collections.
(b) Pen and sepia, with indian-ink wash.
From the Verstolk collection.
Examples of the finest quality: both signed with the initials W. V. V ;
may possibly be the work of the elder rather than the younger Van de
Velde (M. 861, 860).