Willem van Diest ( c.1610 – 1663/73) - Seascape with ‘Smalschepen’

Willem van Diest
The Hague ca. 1610 – The Hague 1663/73

Seascape with ‘Smalschepen’ offshore as a Storm approaches, with Dolphins in the Foreground

Signed ‘W V DIEST’, lower right
Oil on panel
H. 43.3 cm. W. 61.4 cm.

PROVENANCE
Sale Hugo Helbing | Frankfurt am Main | 27 November 1929 | Lot nr. 35 ill. 12 (as by Jan Porcellis) with ill.
With Kunsthandel F. Enneking | Amsterdam
Private collection
With Galerie Kurt J. Müllenmeister | Solingen | by 1970
Private collection
Sale Christie’s | Amsterdam | 7 November 2001 | Lot 76 with ill.
Private collection | Switzerland

LITERATURE
Bol, L.J. (1973). Die Holländische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, pp.163-164, with ill.
Müllenmeister, K.J. (1973). Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts. Bremen: Carl Schunemann Verlag, Vol. I p.24, with ill.

EXHIBITION
Art and Antique Dealers’ Fair | Munich | 30 October – 9 November 1970 | Advertised in Apollo nr. 70 p. 122