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Wybrand Hendriks (Amsterdam 1744-1831 Haarlem)
Lot 88

Wybrand Hendriks (Amsterdam 1744-1831 Haarlem)

Still life of a hare and birds, including a mallard, a goldfinch, a heron and a jay, with two hunting dogs, a rifle in the foreground

Closed2 July 2013

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Wybrand Hendriks (Amsterdam 1744-1831 Haarlem)
Still life of a hare and birds, including a mallard, a goldfinch, a heron and a jay, with two hunting dogs, a rifle in the foreground
signed 'W: Hendriks inv. et. Fecit.' (lower left), and with inscription 'Wybrand Hendriks inv. & fec: 1784' (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolour, minor losses
13¾ x 17 7/8 in. (35 x 45.3 cm.)

Specialist note

Born and trained in Amsterdam, Hendriks spent much of his life in Haarlem, where he served terms as director and curator of the Haarlemse Tekenacademie. He then became curator of the Teylers Museum in 1785 and was responsible for the purchase in 1790 of 1700 Italian drawings from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. The meticulously detailed present drawing is related to a finished painting of a Hunting Still Life at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, dated 1815, which is very close in composition.