Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
The whaler 'Prins Willem' on the Nieuwe Maas near Rotterdam
Auction Closed
January 26, 04:01 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection
Lieve Pietersz. Verschuier
Rotterdam 1627 - 1686
The whaler 'Prins Willem' on the Nieuwe Maas near Rotterdam
signed lower center on boat: L. verschvier
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 by 57 in.; 99.1 by 144.8 cm.
framed: 46⅛ by 64⅜ in.; 117.2 by 163.5 cm.
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Gentleman, deceased"), London, Christie’s, 1 June 1861, lot 21 (as Verschuring, bought by Graves for 15 gns.);
William Dickinson (1802-1880);
His Trustees sale, London, Christie’s, 5 December 1919, lot 149, although withdrawn from that sale;
Thence by descent in the Dickinson family;
By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby’s, 20 April 1988, lot 70;
There acquired by Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, 1988;
From whom acquired.
P. Dekker and R. Eggink, De walvisvaarder Prins Willem op de Nieuwe Maas bij Rotterdam, Amsterdam 1989, passim;
Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge and New York 1991, pp. 182-184, cat. no. 44, reproduced;
Rotterdamse meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2004, pp. 91-92, reproduced fig. 14;
A. Hoving and C. Emke, The Ships of Abel Tasman, Hilversum 2000, p. 36, detail of the whaler Prins Willem reproduced;
J. Giltaij, “Lieve Verschuier (1627-1686), Een Rotterdamse scheepsbeeldhouwer en schilder” in Schatkamer, Veertien opstellen over maritiem-historische onderwerpen aangeboden aan Leo M. Akveld, Rotterdam 2002, cat. no. 20.