PIETER CORNELISZ VERBEECK | A bay horse in a dune landscape

Schloss Wizowitz, Prague, 1965 (inv. no. 2035/1734);

Private collection, Austria;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 9 June 1999, lot 1, where acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 240-43, cat. no. 54, reproduced in colour.

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Pieter Cornelisz. was the son of the marine painter Cornelis Verbeeck. He became a master of the Guild of Alkmaar in 1635, and ten years later joined the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem, where he is thought to have taught Philips Wouwerman and Gillis Schagen. He specialised in depictions of horses, riders and hunts, and also produced etchings in the style of Rembrandt.