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Jacob Knyff (Haarlem 1638-1681 London) Ships in the bay of a Mediterranean harbour image 1
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Property of a gentleman (lots 4, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 24, 29-31, 40, 48, 55, 62, 63, 69, 70)
Lot 40*

Jacob Knyff
(Haarlem 1638-1681 London)
Ships in the bay of a Mediterranean harbour

2 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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Jacob Knyff (Haarlem 1638-1681 London)

Ships in the bay of a Mediterranean harbour
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).

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