Lot 114: Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne (Haarlem 1629-1702)

The ruins of the Castle of Brederode, near Haarlem
red and black chalk, watercolour, traces of black chalk framing lines, watermark Arms of Amsterdam
7 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (195 x 292 mm.)

London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection 1958, no. 398.

Purchased 10 May 1924, probably from Crook.

Brederode Castle, stronghold of the Counts of Brederode, was built in the 13th Century. The castle was slighted in 1573 at the time of the revolt of William the Silent against the Spanish (see lot 100). The moats and redbrick vaults are still visible at the foot of the dunes at Santpoort, three miles north of Haarlem.
Another drawing of Brederode by van der Vinne, one of many artists in the family, is in Turin (G.C. Sciolla, I Disegni di Maestri Stranieri della Biblioteca Reale di Torino, Turin, 1974, no. 151), while a second, formerly attributed to van der Vinne's master Berchem and like the present drawing in red and black chalk, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (J.S. Turner, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, no. 320).

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