A View of Amsterdam, with the Oude Schans Canal and the Montelbaans Tower
Jacobus Storck (Amsterdam 1641 – Amsterdam c.1693)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1692 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
(25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in) 642 x 542 mm
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453765
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A View of Amsterdam, with the Oude Schans Canal and the Montelbaans Tower, by Jacobus Storck, signed and dated in the frieze of the building to the left: A. 1692. I. Storck. A view of the Oude Schans canal in Amsterdam, with the Montelbaans tower in the distance. A sailing boat in the centre is moored close to a quay. Other boats are seen near the building in the left foreground, and in the distance down the canal, while four figures sit in a rowing boat in the right foreground. A cityscape can be seen in the middleground, stretching down towards the Montelbaans tower in the distance.
Provenance
Purchased by Colnaghi for the National Trust from the sale of paintings from Dyrham Park at Sotheby's, 29 February 1956, lot 89
Credit line
Dyrham Park, The Blathwayt Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Jacobus Storck (Amsterdam 1641 – Amsterdam c.1693), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Abraham Storck (Amsterdam 1644 – Amsterdam 1708), artist
References
Inventory and valuation of all the household furniture, linen, china, glass, books, pictures [...] the property of William Blathwayt Esqr. at his late residence Dyrham Park [...] March 1839. [March 1839]., View of Maesen Sluyse - with many Vessels. - nearest the Spectators is a man rowing with a Boat. Wm Storck. Dyrham Park 1844 List of Valuable Pictures, Prints, &c at Dyrham House, Gloucestershire the Property of Geo: Wm. Blathwayt Esq. with nominal prices affixed to some for the purposes of Insurance only. [1844], View of Malsen Sluyse with many Vessels in the front is a man rowing a Boat &c. / W. Storck / [£]25. Inventory [of] Household Furniture, China, Glass, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Books, Silver Plate [...] In the Mansion House at Dyrham Park Gloucestershire bequeathed as Heirlooms by the late Colonel George William Blathwayt who died May the 14th 1871, Stork / View of Masten Sluyse Dyrham Park 1937 An Inventory and Valuation of the contents of Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, the property of the late R. W. Blathwayt, Esq., made for the purpose of Probate duty by, Puttick & Simpson [...] January 1st 1937, A. Storck / View of Amsterdam, with a state barge and other shipping. Catalogue of fine English furniture the property of J. R. W. Blathwayt, esq. 1956., A View in Amsterdam with a state barge and other shipping on the Amstel, signed and dated 1692. 25 1/2 in. by 21 1/2 in. Olivier Le Bihan, L'or & l'ombre: Catalogue critique et raisonné des peintures hollandaises du dix-septième et du dix-huitième siècles, conservées au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1990