




Jacob Knyff(Haarlem 1638-1681 London)Ships in the bay of a Mediterranean harbour
£10,000 - £15,000
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Jacob Knyff (Haarlem 1638-1681 London)
signed with initials 'JW.K' (on boat, lower left)
oil on panel
66.8 x 109.1cm (26 5/16 x 42 15/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 October 1988, lot 281 (as Circle of Willem van der Hagen)
Sale, Christie's, London, 1 November 2001, lot
Sale, Hampel, Munich, 21 September 2007, lot 417
Sale, Hampel, 26 September 2018, lot 703, where purchased by the present owner
Literature
F. Cockett, Early sea painters: 1660-1730: the group who worked in England under the shadow of the Van de Veldes, Woodbridge, 1995, pp.40-1, 48, cat. no. 1, ill, pl. 11
Cockett suggests that the present work is a typical composition of Knyff's earlier pictures, before he came to England in 1672/3, and the pink clouds are particularly characteristic of his style at this time' (see Cockett, ibid, p. 41).