Lot 125: ATTRIBUTED TO ALESSANDRO GREVENBROECK

ATTRIBUTED TO ALESSANDRO GREVENBROECK ACTIVE CIRCA 1717-1724 A MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL CAPRICCIO LANDSCAPE WITH A LARGE PALACE OVERLOOKING A HARBOUR; A MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL CAPRICCIO WITH A FORTIFIED CITY AND A BUSTLING HARBOUR Quantity: 2 a pair, both oil on canvas each: 195 by 290 cm.; 76 3/4 by 114 1/8 in

The present pair are the largest known works given to this enigmatic artist and the attribution is based on comparison with the set of four large canvases sold in these Rooms 5 July 1995 lots 175 and 176. Another work with a very similar style of clouds and rigging is in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (see R. Trnek, Die Holländischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1992, p. 152, no. 53; see pp. 151-6 for a further discussion of the artist). In previous years there has been some confusion between the works attributed to Alessandro Grevenbroeck and to his brother Orazio.