Isaac Ouwater artwork • painting • previously for sale View of the Nieuwstraat in Hoorn
Isaac Ouwater
Amsterdam 1748-1793
View of the Nieuwstraat in Hoorn
oil on canvas 36.7 x 43.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1785
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1933; coll. Bensman, Amsterdam; veiling Glerum, Amsterdam, 12 maart 1991, lotnr. 31 (met afb. in kleur, als ‘Gezicht op Hoorn met rechts het stadhuis en links de Grote Kerk, op het plein voor het stadhuis spelende kinderen’); kunsthandel Kas van der Aa, Katwijk; Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 1993; part. coll. Verenigde Staten.
Isaac Ouwater was born in Amsterdam, the city where he also died in 1793. His highly detailed cityscapes bathed in bright light were very popular in his time. The painter continues the tradition of his 17th-century Dutch predecessors such as Gerrit Berckheyde and Jan van der Heyden. Much of Ouwater's work is topographically accurate and shows the buildings of Utrecht, Haarlem, The Hague, Hoorn and especially Amsterdam.
© Simonis & Buunk
