Lot 5: Southern Landscape with Travellers

Willem de Heusch, Utrecht um, 1625 - Utrecht, 1692, Southern Landscape with Travellers, Oil/wood, 41,5 x 55 cm, lo. le. sign. GD Heuschf, some rest. - Heusch used the italian form Guglielmo of his first name Willem and signed with the initial G. - Utrecht italianate landscape painter, uncle a. teacher of Jakob de H. H. went to Italy around 1640. In 1649 he became dean of the Utrecht painter's guild for the first time. - Mus.: Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), Kassel, Brunswick, Aschaffenburg a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt a. others.