The three-decker Princesse Maria, a VOC yacht and other ships in a roadstead

LUDOLF BACKHUYSEN

Emden 1630-1708 Amsterdam

Oil on canvas 83,5 x 116 cm.
Signed on the campshedding lower right ‘L. BAKHUIZEN’ and dated on the white flag on the bowsprit of the yacht ‘1688’

Provenance
Collection M. Hoofman van Diepenbrock-Van der Graas, Haarlem
Her sale, 5 september 1780, lotno. 8
Bought back by the family for 230 guilders
J. Hoofman (1739-1799), Haarlem
Inherited by his daughters Maria (1776-1845) and Margaretha (1773-1807)
In 1845 sold to the art dealer Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys, Brussels/London
Private collection for at least 3 generations possibly already bought by the family from Nieuwenhuys

Literature
John Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters; in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copieus description of their principal pictures, London 1829-1842, 9 vols., supplement no. 21

R. Van Eijnden, A. van der Willigen, Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche schilderkunst, Haarlem 1816-1840, 4 vols., part 3, p. 397

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, 10 vols. (Esslingen and Paris, 1907–28), part 7, no. 368

Archive A. vd Willigen Pzn, RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague (NL-HaRKD.0392)

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