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On Centre Screen.
86
Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches.
Ludolf BAKHUISEN.
Painter and etcher, chiefly of marine subjects: b. 1631, d. 1708: pupil of
E#>erdingen : worked at Amsterdam.
4£0fView of an English port, with vessels in a breeze.
Pen and indian-ink with indian-ink wash.
From the Verstolk collection.
First-rate example: inscribed in a later hand with the name Ludolf Bak-
huisen ft.: and dated in the artist’s own hand 1679. The sloop making
for the harbour carries the English colours : and the character of the
hillj^eoaCfet is English: having some resemblance to Shields (M. 637).
45Jx*^iew of Amsterdam from the Sea, with vessels in a breeze.
Sepia.
From the Saportas and Leembruggen collections.
Another example of first-rate quality : signed with the initials L. B. (on the
flag*of a sloop) (M. 638).
45^Zview of Amsterdam from the Sea, with vessels in a calm.
Indian-ink.
From the Verstolk and Leembruggen collections.
Signed L. Bakhuisen ft.
Following these three excellent examples of Bakhuisen’s manner in monochrome,
comes, on the central screen, what is perhaps the finest of all the artist’s works,
and certainly the finest extant specimen of early Dutch water-colour painting.
Indeed, in the qualities of luminousness, gradation, and the union of breadth of
general effect with multiplication of minute detail, this panoramic view of
Amsterdam, executed in 1702, has never been surpassed. It is not exclusively
the work of Bakhuisen, but done by him with the assistance, in the architectural
parts, of the architect and etcher J. van Call: see the account below.
/453. Panorama of Amsterdam from the Y; with the yachts of
Peter the Great and of the City of Amsterdam.
Water-colours, with pen-and-ink outlines.
From the Floss van Amstel and Verstolk collection.
Signed on the pennon of the city yacht ‘ L.B.,’ and on the barrel floating in
the foreground ‘A° 1702, AMS.’ The drawing is on three sheets
mounted in one length. The following account of its origin and subject is
taken from the sale catalogue of the Verstolk collection, no. 656 (1847):—
“When the Czar Peter the Great was staying at Amsterdam, on the
occasion of his second visit to Holland, he used to refresh himself from
his labours in the East India Company’s Docks by making many sailing
and rowing excursions on the river Y. Jonas Witsen, Burgomaster, who
was held in particular esteem by the Czar for his skill in shipbuilding
and the construction of sluices, wished to transmit to posterity, in honour
’ of the Czar, a representation of such an excursion, and selected the
celebrated marine painter Ludolf Bakhuisen, and Jacob van Kall, a
famous architect of the town, in order to realise his project. These artists
acquitted themselves of their task to admiration in the present magnificent
set of three coloured drawings, forming a single whole, and rendering
perfectly the panorama of the town of Amsterdam seen from the Y. In
front, among other craft, is seen the city yacht, with the municipal colours
flying at the stern, and the Czar seated on board surrounded by dis-
tinguished personages : and a little on one side the Ozar’s private yacht,
with the Imperial arms of Russia on a mirror, and the state yacht of the
Admiralty close by.” In addition to this masterly work in water-colour,
a painting in oil of the same subject, in different proportion, was executed
by the same artists on the same occasion, also on the commission of the
\ Burgomaster Witsen (B.M.).
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86
Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches.
Ludolf BAKHUISEN.
Painter and etcher, chiefly of marine subjects: b. 1631, d. 1708: pupil of
E#>erdingen : worked at Amsterdam.
4£0fView of an English port, with vessels in a breeze.
Pen and indian-ink with indian-ink wash.
From the Verstolk collection.
First-rate example: inscribed in a later hand with the name Ludolf Bak-
huisen ft.: and dated in the artist’s own hand 1679. The sloop making
for the harbour carries the English colours : and the character of the
hillj^eoaCfet is English: having some resemblance to Shields (M. 637).
45Jx*^iew of Amsterdam from the Sea, with vessels in a breeze.
Sepia.
From the Saportas and Leembruggen collections.
Another example of first-rate quality : signed with the initials L. B. (on the
flag*of a sloop) (M. 638).
45^Zview of Amsterdam from the Sea, with vessels in a calm.
Indian-ink.
From the Verstolk and Leembruggen collections.
Signed L. Bakhuisen ft.
Following these three excellent examples of Bakhuisen’s manner in monochrome,
comes, on the central screen, what is perhaps the finest of all the artist’s works,
and certainly the finest extant specimen of early Dutch water-colour painting.
Indeed, in the qualities of luminousness, gradation, and the union of breadth of
general effect with multiplication of minute detail, this panoramic view of
Amsterdam, executed in 1702, has never been surpassed. It is not exclusively
the work of Bakhuisen, but done by him with the assistance, in the architectural
parts, of the architect and etcher J. van Call: see the account below.
/453. Panorama of Amsterdam from the Y; with the yachts of
Peter the Great and of the City of Amsterdam.
Water-colours, with pen-and-ink outlines.
From the Floss van Amstel and Verstolk collection.
Signed on the pennon of the city yacht ‘ L.B.,’ and on the barrel floating in
the foreground ‘A° 1702, AMS.’ The drawing is on three sheets
mounted in one length. The following account of its origin and subject is
taken from the sale catalogue of the Verstolk collection, no. 656 (1847):—
“When the Czar Peter the Great was staying at Amsterdam, on the
occasion of his second visit to Holland, he used to refresh himself from
his labours in the East India Company’s Docks by making many sailing
and rowing excursions on the river Y. Jonas Witsen, Burgomaster, who
was held in particular esteem by the Czar for his skill in shipbuilding
and the construction of sluices, wished to transmit to posterity, in honour
’ of the Czar, a representation of such an excursion, and selected the
celebrated marine painter Ludolf Bakhuisen, and Jacob van Kall, a
famous architect of the town, in order to realise his project. These artists
acquitted themselves of their task to admiration in the present magnificent
set of three coloured drawings, forming a single whole, and rendering
perfectly the panorama of the town of Amsterdam seen from the Y. In
front, among other craft, is seen the city yacht, with the municipal colours
flying at the stern, and the Czar seated on board surrounded by dis-
tinguished personages : and a little on one side the Ozar’s private yacht,
with the Imperial arms of Russia on a mirror, and the state yacht of the
Admiralty close by.” In addition to this masterly work in water-colour,
a painting in oil of the same subject, in different proportion, was executed
by the same artists on the same occasion, also on the commission of the
\ Burgomaster Witsen (B.M.).
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