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Lot Closed
April 8, 02:24 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ANDRIES VERMEULEN
Dordrecht 1763 -1814 Amsterdam
FIGURES SKATING ON A FROZEN RIVER BY A WINDMILL
signed lower right: A. Vermeulen
oil on canvas
unframed: 30.6 x 50.5 cm.; 15¼ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 48.8 x 60.5 cm.; 19¼ x 23⅞ in.
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Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 April 1954, lot 57, to Schelwald (according to a mount at the Witt Library, London);
Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 29 October 2014, lot 204.
Andries Vermeulen studied under his father Cornelis Vermeulen the Younger, an ornamental painter and picture dealer. Andries was primarily a painter of landscapes, and particularly excelled in producing winter scenes with townspeople skating on the frozen canals of Holland. This picture provides such an example - groups of figures donning ice skates are scattered throughout the composition performing quotidian tasks, such as loading a horse's carriage or conversing among themselves.