Lot 40: SALOMON VAN RUYSDAEL

NAARDEN 1600/3 - 1670 HAARLEM
A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH FISHERMEN IN ROWING BOATS AND PEASANTS BY A LANDING STAGE NEAR A FARMHOUSE, SHIPPING BEYOND
signed with monogram and dated on the side of the rowing boat lower right: S.VR 1644
oil on panel
20 1/2 by 33 in.; 52.1 by 83.8 cm.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Hidden Treasures, 27 July - 17 October 1993, p. 38, no. 50.

(Presumably) R. and J. Dodsley, London and its Environs described, London 1761, vol. V, p. 93 (as "a landscape, by Salomon Ruysdale or 'A landscape, by Sal. Ruysdale'');
The Illustrated London News, 11 November 1933, p. 776;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1938, p. 107, cat. no. 342;
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, 2υnd, revised edition, Berlin 1975, p. 120, cat. no. 342;
C. Whistler, C. White, and R. Baird, Hidden Treasures, exhibition catalogue, Oxford 1993, p. 38, no. 50, reproduced p. 37.

Presumably Charles Jennens (1700-1773), Ormond Street, London (see Dodsley, 1761);
By inheritance to Penn Assheton Curzon (1757-1797);
By descent to his third (but eldest surviving) son, Richard William Penn (1796-1870), later 1υst Earl Howe (2υnd creation);
By descent until Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon (1884-1964), 5th Earl Howe, CBE, PC, VD, Penn House, Amersham, Bucks.;
His sale, London, Christie's, 7 December 1933, lot 68, for 620 gns. to Ellis and Smith;
With Ellis and Smith, London;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Deceased's Estate"), London, Christie's, 9 July 1999, lot 30, where purchased by the present owner.