Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 223. A church interior.

Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Follower of Pieter Neefs the Younger

A church interior

Lot Closed

December 9, 04:01 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Follower of Pieter Neefs the Younger

A church interior


bears signature centre left: Peeter / Neeffs

oil on panel

unframed: 26.5 cm. x 33.8 cm.; 10½ x 13⅜ in.

framed: 51.8 cm. x 58 cm.; 20⅜ x 22⅞ in.

With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D469), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, pp. 361-62;
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku. Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 47;
Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, pp. 105-6, no. 70, reproduced p. 106 (as Pieter Neeffs the Younger and Frans Francken III).