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Lot 48*
Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels(Amsterdam circa 1620-1707)Shipping in calm seas at sunset
Amended
2 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£60,000 - £80,000
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Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels (Amsterdam circa 1620-1707)
Shipping in calm seas at sunset
bears monogram 'IVC' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
52 x 48.7cm (20 1/2 x 19 3/16in).
bears monogram 'IVC' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
52 x 48.7cm (20 1/2 x 19 3/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of the Earl De La Warr
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris (as Jan van de Cappelle), by 1899
The Collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris, by 1910, and thence by descent to his heirs
Confiscated by Nazi forces 1943 (ref. Schloss 38)
Acquired for the Linz Museum (as Jan van de Cappelle, 'Stille See')
Stored for the above at the Führerbau Munich (Crate #7)
Recovered in Germany and restituted to the Schloss family in 1977
With Otto Naumann, New York, where acquired by
Private Collection, USA in 1986
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January, 2019, lot 63, where purchased by the present owner
Literature
The Fifth Hundred of Paintings by Old Masters belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1899, p. 8, cat. no. 2, ill., p. 9 (as Jan van de Cappelle)
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1923, vol. VII, p. 173, cat. no. 62 (as Jan van de Cappelle)
Weltkunst, 15 March 1952, p. 12, ill.
U. Middendorf, Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels, Freren, 1989, pp.33, 104, cat. no. 25, ill.
Renowned for his marine painting, Dubbels spent his entire life in Amsterdam. It is assumed that he started his career in the studio of Simon de Vlieger (c.1601-1653) but clearly also drew influence from Jan Porcellis (1580/84-1632) and Jan van de Cappelle (1626-79), who the present work has been previously attributed to on account of the spurious monogram.
According to Middendorf this is an early work dated to 1653-57, a time often regarded as Dubbel's best period when he ranked alongside Cappelle and Willem van de Velde as the leading Dutch marine painters (see Literature). Dubbels had a tendency to repeat motifs: for example the small schuit appears in a work in Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel (inv.no. GK 426); and a similar figure as the one in the centre of the present work features in a work of a similar date by Dubbels in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv.no. SK-A-687).
Saleroom notices
Please note that the dimensions of the canvas are 54.8 x 75.2cm and not as previously stated.
