Pieter Nolpe (Attributed), 17th-Century Dutch Landscape With River

Pieter Nolpe (Attributed), 17th-Century Dutch Landscape With RiverThis charming 17th century landscape painting by Dutch artist Pieter Nolpe (c. 1613 c. 1652) depicts a twisting river amid undulant scenery. In the foreground, a ferryman is unloading cattle from a small boat while another steadies the craft with his foot. Beyond them, the hills rise and fall before culminating in a distant peak. Works by Pieter Nolpe (1613 1653) are hard to come by and he was an accomplished artist. Note the diagonal from the top

An inscription on the reverse refers to ‘M De Haas’

a series of small buildings are lightly sketched in

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 22” x 25” / 56cm x 63cmYear of creation: c

The engraving was published in The Illustrated London News on the 24th of March 1856 along with the following description:

His style tended to be fairly formal so this piece is unusual for its expressive nature

Alongside his work as a celebrated painter

A charming 19th-century study of a woodcutter in the snow by German painter

Areas of craquelure and one small loss on the left

His intelligent work seems to capture a set of reactions to Beethoven’s compositions

following the death of his father in 1909

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 35½” x 25½” / 90cm x 65cmYear of creation: c

his heavy moustache drooping under a prominent Roman nose