Lot 88: Johannes Huibert Prins (1757-1806)

A panoramic view of Cleves with monks and a traveller on a track in the foreground signed 'JHPrins' (JHP linked, lower right) oil on copper 24.9 x 34.8 cm. PROVENANCE Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 9 December 1994, lot 240. NOTES R. van Eijnden & A. van der Willigen ( Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, II, 1817, pp. 426-7) record the artist as a painter of cityscapes in the tradition of his seventeenth-century predecessors Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Berckheyde. Prins is known to have travelled to Cologne: a city view of that city was sold from the collection of Hendrik Muilman, P. van der Schley, Amsterdam, 12-3 April 1813, lot 123. It is likely that the present lot was painted during the artist's trip to Germany. SALESROOM NOTICE We are gratefull to Dr Guido de Werd of the Kurhaus Kleve for noting that Prins's composition is taken from the engraving by Pieter Schenk after a drawing by Jan van Call ( Conspectus Berlini et Cliviae ).