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Lot 22

Jan van der Heyden
(Gorinchem 1637-1712 Amsterdam)
A hilltop town beside a river, figures on horseback in the foreground

Amended
8 December 2016, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £40,000 inc. premium

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Jan van der Heyden (Gorinchem 1637-1712 Amsterdam)

A hilltop town beside a river, figures on horseback in the foreground
oil on panel
45.2 x 59.5cm (17 13/16 x 23 7/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Likely to have been acquired by Thomas Hibbert II (died 1817), thence by descent in the collection of the Hibbert family at Chalfont House in the parish of Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, to Major General Hugh Hibbert of Chalfont, 1952

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1952-3, no. 272

An engraving by Jeanne Deny records a depiction of the same town by Jan van der Heyden but from a different angle which was in the Cabinet of the Duc de Choiseul.

Saleroom notices

Please note the following literature for this lot: H. Wagner, Jan van der Heyden 1637-1712, Amsterdam and Haarlem, 1971,no. 156

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