Lot 145: Pieter Mulier (Haarlem c. 1615-1670), Ships on a

Pieter Mulier
(Haarlem c. 1615-1670),
Ships on a choppy sea under a stormy sky,
indistinctly monogrammed at lower right (in a piece of driftwood): PM,
oil on panel, 40 x 62 cm, framed
Provenance: Galerie Otto, Munich (1987);
private collection, Berlin.
We are grateful to Marijke de Kinkelder of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the authorship of Pieter Mulier on the basis of a professional photograph.
The works by the Haarlem-based marine painter are closely related to those of Simon de Vlieger and Jan Porcellis. Typical motifs of his are fishing boats in a stiff breeze on the open sea.