LAWRENCE STEIGRAD FINE ARTS

Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and British Portraits

ABRAHAM RADEMAKER (Lisse 1676 / 1677 – Haarlem 1735)

 The Noorderpoort of Hoorn in 1620

Inscribed on the reverse by the artist: Poort + horn, with a later numbering of 23

pen and brown ink and brown wash on beige paper

2 3/4 x 4 1/6 inches (70 x 107 mm.)

Sold to the Westfries Museum, Hoorn, The Netherlands


PROVENANCE

Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, November 2, 2004, lot 125, illustrated

Private collection, Washington, D.C., until the present time

LITERATURE

Willem Beelaerts van Blokland, Charles Dumas, and Hanneke Ronnes, De Kasteeltekeningen van Abraham Rademaker, Waanders, Zwolle, 2006, p. 89, no. 180 (as a preparatory drawing for Rademaker’s print of the same subject reproduced in the Kabinet van Nederlandsche Ooutheden, no. 22)

 

We would like to thank Charles Dumas for confirming this drawing to be by Abraham Rademaker.


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