Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Johan Pietersz. Schoeff

River landscape with fishermen in a boat

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Johan Pietersz. Schoeff

Antwerp circa 1608 - in or after 1666 Bergen op Zoom

River landscape with fishermen in a boat

signed with initials lower left: I.S

oil on oak panel

unframed: 45.5 x 70 cm.; 17 7/8 x 27 1/2 in.

framed: 62 x 86 cm.; 24 3/8 x 33 7/8 in.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 December 1987, lot 197 (as Follower of Salomon van Ruysdael), where acquired for the Wieg collection.

H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, vol. IV, p. 405, cat. no. 1146.

Schoeff, who was probably born in Antwerp, was a neighbour of the landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) in The Hague. His only known works are landscapes, executed between 1640 and 1654, and of which the present work, monogrammed with Schoeff’s initials, is a significant example. The influence of Van Goyen is strongly apparent in this work and in the following two lots.