Andreas Schelfhout artwork • painting • for sale Sailing vessels and a steamer on open water
Andreas Schelfhout
Den Haag 1787-1870
1787-1870
Sailing vessels and a steamer on open water
oil on panel 67.6 x 90.6 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1845
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 125,000
Provenance: Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, 's-Gravenhage, ca. 1950; mr. A.F. Lodeizen, Wassenaar; mevr. N.M. Bravo-Lodeizen-Gijswijt, Bilbao, Spanje.
Literature: Cyp Quarles van Ufford, 'Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870). Landschapschilder in Den Haag', Leiden 2009, pag. 161, afb. 96.
Bright sunlight guides our eyes to the whitecaps on the waves between the ships. This is how he connects the old and the new: the sailing ship and the paddle steamer. Schelfhout loved to capture the innovations of his time.
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