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Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten (Amsterdam )

A capriccio view of a port with vessels and stevedores unloading cargo
signed with initials 'J.B.' (lower right)
oil on panel
x cm (30 7/8 x 43 5/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
The Collection of the Duchesse de Berry, Venice (according to a plaque applied to the reverse)

Two drawings exist as studies for the central ship. One was in the Witt Collection (no. ); the other was offered in the Schotel sale with de Vries in Amsterdam on 7 March

Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten was the most successful of a family of painters. Both he and his eldest son, Abraham, specialised particularly in paintings of southern sea ports (as well as sea battles and winter townscapes). Jan Abrahamsz. may initially have been a pupil of Claes Claesz. Wou, a marine painter in the Flemish tradition who influenced his sea battles. However, his southern ports are regarded to have been influenced by the works of such Dutch Italianate painters as Nicolaes Berchem and Jan Baptist Weenix. Unlike his townscapes, Beerstraten's ports were imaginary, although he sometimes incorporated real buildings within them. It is unknown whether he travelled to Italy although some commentators have noted the accuracy with which he depicts southern light. An alternative ex