Wooded Landscape with a Winding River

Philips Koninck (Dutch, 1619–1688)

about 1650

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions60 x 77.2 cm (23 5/8 x 30 3/8 in.)
Framed: 87 x 103.2 x 9.2 cm (34 1/4 x 40 5/8 x 3 5/8 in.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-R 1045.2016

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ClassificationsPaintings

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ProvenanceBy 1844, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (b. 1786 – d. 1861), Stafford House, London [see note 1]; by descent to his son George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (b. 1828 – d. 1892), Stafford House [see note 2]; by descent in the family to George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (b. 1888 – d. 1913), Stafford House, London [see note 3]. 1921 until 1926, Agnew and Sons, London. 1930, A. S. Drey (dealer), Munich. 1935, Dr. Hermann Burg (dealer; b. 1878 – d. 1946), Haarlem [see note 4]. January 29, 1954, anonymous sale, Christie's, London, lot 98, sold for £400 to Frank Sabin (dealer), London. Edward Speelman (dealer), London [see note 5]. Between 1974 and 1981, acquired by the British Rail Pension Fund, London; July 3, 1996, British Rail Pension Fund sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 69. 1997, sold by Noortman Master Paintings, London, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA.

NOTES:
[1] See Anna Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London (London, 1844), p, 206, no. 130. This painting may have belonged to the Duke's father, George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (b. 1758 - d. 1833), Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland. It does not appear in the 1810 or 1818 catalogues of the Marquis of Stafford (later Duke of Sutherland) collection, nor does it appear in the illustrated catalogues of their London home, Cleveland House, made in 1812 and 1825.

[2] See G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain (London, 1854), p. 70. The Duke of Sutherland lent this painting to exhibitions at the Royal Academy in 1870 and 1876.

[3] That it passed by descent to the 5th Duke of Sutherland is according to the RKD online image database (no. 13235).

[4] Provenance from 1921 until 1935 is according to Horst Gerson, Philips Koninck (Berlin, 1936), cat. 45 and the 1996 Sotheby’s catalogue.

[5] According to Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. 3 (Landau, 1983), p. 1601.