Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616- Haarlem 1677)
Signed lower left: TWyck (under the floating barrel)
Coastal view of the Mediterranean
ca. 1660
Oil on canvas, cm 43 x 52, framed 57 x 66 cm.
Provenance:
- Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Old Master Paintings, 18/05/2004, lot 19, Award: €8,540
- Porro Auction, Milan, Auction 75 Old and 19th Century Paintings, 29.05.2014, Estimate €15,000 / €18,000
The work is accompanied by a critical analysis by Raffaella Colace.
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This is a work by the painter Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616 - Haarlem 1677), an important Flemish artist of the Golden Age, originally from the city of Haarlem and specialized in the creation of splendid landscapes and genre scenes, in our case a fascinating view of the Mediterranean, with a fortified city on a rocky promontory and merchants conversing on the shore.
As highlighted by Dr. Raffaella Colace in her study, the work is placed in the advanced phase of the painter's activity, in light of the pictorial experiences gained during his Roman stay (see Bert W. Meijer edited by, Flemings and Dutch: paintings from the Lombard collections, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2002), and in particular can be compared with the Mediterranean landscape owned by the Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder Gallery in The Hague (see P. Huys Janssen, The Hoogsteder exhibition of Dutch landscapes, Zwolle 1991).
Works dating back to 1640 include the View of the Aracoeli (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), the Market Square of Portico d'Ottavia (private coll.) and the View of Naples with Vesuvius Erupting (see In the Shadow of Vesuvius, Exhibition Catalog edited by Nicola Spinosa , Naples 1990, p. 285), and the View of the port of matching representative style published in the Exhibition Catalog 'Italian or Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century' (Utrecht 1965, fig. n. 71, pp. 144-46).
Active in Rome between 1640 and 1642 - here known by the nickname 'Tommaso fiammingo' - his style was strongly influenced by this Italian stay, and in particular by contact with that group of Nordic painters, almost all Dutch, working in Rome in the High Seicento, called Bamboccianti.
The canvas is in good condition.
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