Lot 137: Anthonie Erkelens , Rotterdam 1774 - 1804 a wooden barn on the edge of a village, a windmill and church spire on the horizon Pen and brown ink and watercolor, within brown ink framing lines

Pen and brown ink and watercolor, within brown ink framing lines

measurements note 174 by 210 mm

Dr. Heinrich Beckmann, Bremen (L.2756a);
Ernst Jürgen Otto (L.873b);
Saam and Lily Nijstad, The Hague,
their sale ('The Unicorno Collection'), Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 19 May 2004, lot 307

One of a stylistically coherent group of landscape drawings with watercolour, which have only recently come to be attributed to this previously little-known Rotterdam artist. Formerly, these drawings were generally given either to Jacob van Strij or, if they contained figures in 17th-century costume, to Anthonie van Borssom. For two examples of similarly conceived landscapes by Erkelens, see Een kunstkast gaat open; Tekeningen uit de verzameling Teding van Berkhout, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1995-6, cat. no. 57, and Travels through Town and Country, Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings 1550-1830, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 2000, cat. no. 96.