Andreas Schelfhout - Coastal Landscape with Fishermen and Heavily Laden Boats - image-1

Lot 1185 Dα

Andreas Schelfhout - Coastal Landscape with Fishermen and Heavily Laden Boats

Auction 1141 - overview Cologne
16.11.2019, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C.
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 18.600 € (incl. premium)

Andreas Schelfhout

Coastal Landscape with Fishermen and Heavily Laden Boats

Oil on panel. 36 x 49 cm.
Signed lower left: A. Schelfhout.

Andreas Schelfhout is known as the painter who rediscovered the Dutch coastal landscape, one of the most prominent motifs of the Golden Age, in the 19th century. He exhibited his first painting with this motif in 1824 and rose to international fame in the following years. Willem Laanstra dates the present composition to the decade of 1840-1850 and will be including the work in his upcoming catalogue raisonné under the number MO 36-2.

Certificate

Willem Laanstra, 9th September 2019