Jan van Goyen

Leiden 1596 - The Hague 1656

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Old High Tower on the Estuary.

Oil on Panel, 34.2 x 52 cm

Signed and Dated on the rowing boat (half right): VG 1646

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Probably J. Arthur James, M.V.O. (1853-1917), of Coton House, Rugby, and 3 Grafton Street, W.1, before 1909;
His widow, Mrs Arthur James, née Maria Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck (1861 - 1948), 1917 – 1948;
Sale Mrs Arthur James, Christie’s London, 15 October 1948, no. 72, reproduced (£ 1312.10 Tooth);
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1948;
Thos. Agnews & Sons, Ltd, 1948 ‘on joint account with Tooth’;
Private collection R.P. Silcock of Preston, Lancashire, England;
Possibly Edward Speelman, London, ca. 1968;
Spink & Son, London;
Presumably Private Collection, England;
Michael Simpson, London;
Presumably Private Collection, England;
Hazlitt Fine Art, London;
Jan Six Fine Art, Netherlands, 2014;
Private Collection, USA, 2014-2024.

Literature

Dr. H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656, Vol. II, Katalog der Gemälde, 1973, p. 343, cat. no. 764, reproduced.