ABRAHAM RADEMAKER (Lisse 1676 / 1677 – Haarlem 1735)
The Noorderpoort of Hoorn in 1620
Inscribed on the reverse by the artist: Poort + horn, with a later numbering of 23
pen and brown ink and brown wash on beige paper
2 3/4 x 4 1/6 inches (70 x 107 mm.)
Sold to the Westfries Museum, Hoorn, The Netherlands
PROVENANCE
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, November 2, 2004, lot 125, illustrated
Private collection, Washington, D.C., until the present time
LITERATURE
Willem Beelaerts van Blokland, Charles Dumas, and Hanneke Ronnes, De Kasteeltekeningen van Abraham Rademaker, Waanders, Zwolle, 2006, p. 89, no. 180 (as a preparatory drawing for Rademaker’s print of the same subject reproduced in the Kabinet van Nederlandsche Ooutheden, no. 22)
We would like to thank Charles Dumas for confirming this drawing to be by Abraham Rademaker.