Fishing boats near the shore in stormy weather

ABRAHAM SUSENIER

Leiden ca. 1620-1666 Dordrecht

Oil on panel 36 x 49 cm.
Indistinctly signed (lower right)

Provenance
Auction, Christie’s, London, 15 December 1922, lotno. 140 (as ‘Rembrandt’)
Collection Mr M.M. van Valkenburg, ‘Huize Ross’, Laren
His auction, A. Nijstad, Laren (Gld.), 29 May 1951, lotno. 7 (as ‘A. Brouwer’)
Collection Baron L.A.S.J. van der Feltz, Brummen, 1963

Exhibited
The Hague, Kunsthandel Dorus Hermsen, ‘Tentoonstelling het Hollandsche waterlandschap en zeegezicht in de zeventiende eeuw’, 27 February-26 March 1932, no. 21, as: ‘Jan van de Capelle’ (private collection, not for sale). This exhibition was for the benefit of the Haagsche Crisis Comité (Hague Crisis Committee).

According to Houbraken, Abraham Susenier was a still life painter especially good at painting silverwork. Susenier joined the Dordrecht Guild of Saint Luke in 1646. Although primarily known as a still life painter, Susenier was also a very successful in painting seascapes and landscapes.
According to the RKD his monogram “AB S” was mistaken for Abraham Steenwyck or Abraham van Beijeren up to the 20th century, and only recently have his works been reattributed. A Dordrecht estate inventory from 1682 of the Van Slingelandt family mentions 18 works by Susenier, mostly landscapes.

This painting is a typical example of the seascapes by this Dordrecht master.

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