Lot 40: Jan-Theuniss Blankerhoff (Alkmaar 1628-1669 Amsterdam)

Jan-Theuniss Blankerhoff (Alkmaar 1628-1669 Amsterdam)
Dutch men-o'-war in choppy waters off a coast
signed with monogram 'BH' (on the spar, lower right)
oil on panel
18 x 27¾ in. (45.8 x 70.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 29 May 1984, lot 22.

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The present work compares closely with Blankerhoff's Ships in a gale off a rocky coast in the Statens Museum, Copenhagen, which depicts a man-o'-war and a fishing pink against a strikingly similar coast line (see Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art, Lawrence Goedde, 1989, fig 135.)