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The Property of a Gentleman
Auction Closed
December 5, 12:50 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
ANDRIES VERMEULEN
Dordrecht 1763 - 1814 Amsterdam
Winter landscape with figures skating on a river before a wooden bridge and a windmill
signed on the plank lower right: A·Vermeulen
oil on canvas
106.3 x 132.1 cm.; 41⅞ x 52 in.
Mrs Carpenter, Lea Castle, Kidderminster;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 February 1931, lot 76, for £7 to Erskine;
Sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 21 March 1935, lot 189 (according to a mount at the Witt Library, London);
In the collection of the present owner for at least two generations.
Another version of this painting, of slightly smaller dimensions (82.8 x 104.7 cm.), and signed and dated A·Vermeulen F. / 1798, was sold in these Rooms, 27 October 2011, lot 28. That painting has in the past been confused with the present work, and has been erroneously listed with the Carpenter provenance.