Hendrick Avercamp

Sir John Campbell, Castelnau, Charing, Kent;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie’s, 28 March 1924, lot 34, for £126, to Mellaert;

With J.H.J. Mellaert, Borgharen;

From whom acquired by Otto B. Schuster, Amsterdam, by whom sold, in April 1929, to De Boer;

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam;

From whom acquired by Van Hees, Delft, 22 October 1929;

Thence by descent to his son, Dr. C.A. van Hees, Reeuwijk;

His sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 31 May 1960, lot 3, for 40,000 florins, to De Boer;

With P. de Boer, Amsterdam and Lucerne, 1960–62;

From whom acquired by a private collector, 1962;

By whom offered (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 15 April 1992, lot 29, where unsold;

By whom subsequently sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 8 July 1994, lot 68, to Koetser;

With David Koetser, Zurich, by October 1994 until at least June 1996;

From whom purchased in 1996 by the present collectors.

‘Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in het Rijksmuseum’, in Elsevier’s Geïllustreerd Maandschrift, vol. 39, no. 78, August 1929, p. 138, reproduced pl. XXX;

‘Auktions-Vorschau’, in Die Weltkunst, vol. XXX, no. 10, 15 May 1960, reproduced;

C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp 1585–1634, Zwolle 1933, p. 204, no. S 15, and 2^nd ed. Doornspijk 1979, p. 205, no. S 14.1 and p. 255, under no. T 18;

M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam 1998, text vol., p. 7, under no. 13.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst Nederland, 29 June – 1 September 1929, no. 4;

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Tentoonstelling kunstbezit van oud-alumni der Leidse Universiteit, June 1950, no. 11;

Amsterdam, P. de Boer, Wintertentoonstelling van oude schilderijen, 15 February – 15 August 1961, no. 5;

Zurich, David Koetser, Fine Old Master Paintings, 27 October – 31 December 1994.