AERNOUT SMIT | SHIPS IN DISTRESS OFF A ROCKY COAST

Jules Porges, Paris;

Private collection, Stuttgart, whence acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 244–47, cat. no. 64, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 130, cat. no. 144, reproduced in colour.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 144.

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Smit, who is thought to have been a native of Amsterdam, was recorded by Arnold Houbraken as having been a pupil of Jan Theunisz. Blanckerhoff, who was active in Amsterdam between 1659 and 1666. He was also strongly influenced by the work of Ludolf Backhuysen.