Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Thomas Wyck or Wijck (Bewerwyck 1616- Haarlem 1677) Signed lower left: TWyck (under the floating barrel)
Mediterranean coastal view ca. 1660
Oil on canvas, 43 x 52 cm in frame 57 x 66 cm.
Provenance: Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Old Master Paintings, 18/05/2004, lot 19, Hammer price: €8,540
Porro Auction, Milan, Auction 75 Antique and 19th-century paintings, 29/05/2014, Estimate €15,000 / €18,000
The work is accompanied by a critical report by Raffaella Colace.
This is a work by the painter Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616 - Haarlem 1677), an important Flemish artist of the Golden Age, originally from the city of Haarlem and specialising in the creation of beautiful landscapes and genre scenes, in this case a charming view of the Mediterranean, with a fortified city on a rocky promontory and merchants conversing on the shore.
As highlighted by Dr Raffaella Colace in her study, the work belongs to the advanced phase of the painter's career, in light of the pictorial experiences he gained during his stay in Rome (cf. Bert W. Meijer, ed., Flemish and Dutch: paintings from Lombard collections, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2002), and in particular can be compared with the Mediterranean landscape that belonged to the Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder Gallery in The Hague (see P. Huys Janssen, The Hoogsteder exhibition of Dutch landscapes, Zwolle 1991).
Works dating back to 1640 include the View of Aracoeli (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), the Market Square of Portico d'Ottavia (private collection) and the View of Naples with Vesuvius Erupting (see All'ombra del Vesuvio, Exhibition catalogue edited by Nicola Spinosa, Naples 1990, p. 285), and Veduta di porto di combaciante gusto rappresentativo published in the exhibition catalogue “Pittori paesaggisti italiani olandesi del XVII secolo” (Utrecht 1965, fig. no. 71, pp. 144-46).
Active in Rome between 1640 and 1642 - known here by the nickname “Tommaso fiammingo” - his style was strongly influenced by his stay in Italy, and in particular by his contact with that group of Nordic painters, almost all of them Dutch, working in Rome in the mid-17th century, known as the Bamboccianti. The canvas is in good condition.
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