Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Circle of Hans Bol (Mechelen 1534-1593 Amsterdam)
Lot 18

Circle of Hans Bol (Mechelen 1534-1593 Amsterdam)

A village on a stream

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 3,500

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Circle of Hans Bol (Mechelen 1534-1593 Amsterdam)
A village on a stream
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines, unframed
6 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (16.2 x 30.2 cm.)

The ‘Llanover Album’, assembled in the 18th Century, probably by Sir Anthony Westcombe, Bart. (d.1752), and by descent to
Ivon John Caradoc Herbert, 1st (and last) Baron Treowen (1851-1933), Llanover House, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Bruton & Knowles, 26 June 1934, (part of lot 997 (bought by R.E.A. Wilson and Alfred Jowett).
Anonymous sale [Baron Paul Hatvany]; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1966, lot 30 (as Hans Bol, unsold).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26-27 November 1973, lot 208 (as Hans Bol), where purchased by Brian Sewell.

Specialist note

An attribution to Paulus van Hillegaert I (1596-1640) has also been suggested.