Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne I

Purchased 10 May 1924, probably from Crook,
sale, London, Christie's, Master Drawings from the Oppé Collection, 5 December 2006, lot 114

London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 398 (as Jan van der Vinne)

Glued to the left to a mount of some age. Foxing scattered around especially in the area of the sky. Slight damage to the top corner where the sheet has been glued. Overall colours are well preserved.
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The Castle of Brederode was built in the 13th century and largely destroyed in 1573, during the revolt of the northern Netherlands against the Spanish.  Today, little of this great fortification survives.

Other drawings of the same location have been attributed to Vincent Laurentsz. van der Vinne I, including one, also executed in red and black chalk but without the watercolour seen here, in the Morgan Library, New York, but as Jane Turner has discussed in her catalogue entry for that drawing, distinguishing between the drawings of the different members of this extensive family of artists is extremely difficult, and there remains much work to be done to clarify this question.¹

^1. J.S. Turner, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York 2006, no. 320