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| Auction House | Hart (A.H.) -- from catalog: A.H. de Hart | | Sale Location | Premises, ten huize van de Weduwe J. van Strij, Dordrecht, Netherlands | | Seller(s) | Strij, Jacob van; Santheuvel, Pieter van den; etc.
from catalog: Nagelaten door den Wel-Edel Geboren Heer Mr. Pieter van den Santheuvel, Heer van Driel, doch grootendeels door den Kunstschilder Jacob van Stry | | Lugt Number | 8873 | | Notes | FLNY gives the totals as f 8278.3 for the paintings. The title page specifies that a portion of the paintings in the sale belonged to the estate of the deceased collector Pieter van den Santheuvel (1732-1799), and the title repeats, in part, the title page of Van den Santheuvel's posthumous sale of July 23, 1810 (N-164) also held in Dordrecht, at which the collection had been dispersed The annotations in the FLNY copy of the present catalogue, which has been annotated by someone involved with the sale, indicate that ten lots were from Van den Santheuvel's estate and all but one had been left unsold at the earlier sale. The FLNY catalogue also identifies the owners of some other lots in the sale, presumably also residents of Dordrecht but less prominent. The FLNY catalogue does not specifically associate the principal seller, Jacob van Strij (1756-February, 1815) with any lots but evidently he was the proprietor of everything in the sale not specifically attributed to someone else. This is supported by the fact that the sale was held in Jacob van Strij's home. Lots 44-114, all of which were by Jacob van Strij or other members of his family, are among those left without a consigner's name, which sltogether numbered more than one hundred lots, more than two-thirds of the total. This huge number, including some pictures of unsually large size, consituted the final dispersal of the family's studio, including five pieces by Aelbert Cuyp, whose works had served as models for Van der Strij's imitations. It has been shown (In helder licht, exhibition Dordrecht, 2000) that Van Strij's estate had to be sold to cover large debts incurred by a brother, Jan van Strij. Prices realized at the sale were quite good, with a number of lots fetching more than 300 fl. and two even surpassing 600 fl. Quite a few were also left unsold, but these were, for the most part, among the less valuable pieces.
It is worth noting the role played by the auctioneer, A.H. de Hart, in this sale, He is recorded as the buyer or joint buyer of eight lots at the Santheuvel sale in 1810, all of which reappear here. Some of these are here again shown as the property of Sandheuvel, meaning that Hart had bought them in for his estate rather than for himself, but others reappear here among the lots belonging to Jacob van Strij. Most probably Hart had been acting on the oders of Van Strij and was then given the sale to manage on the present occasion. [Notes by B. Fredericksen] | | Catalog Location(s) | EBNP Annot. with all buyers and prices.
FLNY Annot. with many sellers as well as all buyers and prices. It may have belonged to the auctioneer or someone else connected with the organization of the sale.
RKDH Not annot. excepting a few marks by certain lots. Addressed to Penninck Hooft.
MB Not annot.
RMA Not annot.
AAP [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil with a few buyers and some prices. (Dutch edition)
LRB Present location unknown. According to Lugt it is annot. with buyers and prices.
MR Annot. with the prices for lots 68 & 129 and all prices for the drawings. (Dutch edition)
MPA Not annot.
MGD Not seen, but supposedly annot. with buyers, prices and notes. It belonged to A. van Strij. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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