Lot 229: HENDRICK CORNELISZ. VAN VLIET

HENDRICK CORNELISZ. VAN VLIET DELFT 1611/12 - 1675 INTERIOR OF THE OUDE KERK, DELFT, LOOKING WEST oil on canvas 33 3/4 by 40 1/2 in; 85.7 by 102.9 cm.

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Collects, 4 October- 3 November 1957, no. 53.

C.C. Cunningham, Connecticut Collects, Hartford 1957, p. 9, cat. no. 53, reproduced pl. II, fig. no. 4;
W. A. Liedtke, Architectural Painting in Delft, Doornspijk 1982, p. 106, Appendix II, no. 53 (as by van Vliet).

James McArthur Thomson, Hartford, by 1957;
By whose Estate sold ("Property from the Estate of James McArthur Thomson"), New York, Christie's, 12 January 1994, lot 110, where unsold;
Anonymous sale ("Property from a New England Estate"), New York, Christie's, 11 January 1995, lot 240;
There purchased by the present collector.

We are grateful to Dr. Walter A. Liedtke for confirming this painting to be a work by van Vliet, on the basis of firsthand inspection. He dates it as a late work by the artist, circa 1670.