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Lot 329

Pieter Cornelis Dommersen, Dutch 1834-1908-  Figures in boats at Zaandam, Holland;  oil on panel,...

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Lot 329

Pieter Cornelis Dommersen, 
Dutch 1834-1908- 
Figures in boats at Zaandam, Holland; 
oil on panel,...

Price Realised: £1,706

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

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Lot 329

Description

Pieter Cornelis Dommersen, 
Dutch 1834-1908- 

Figures in boats at Zaandam, Holland; 

oil on panel, signed and dated 'P.C. Dommersen. 1891' (lower right), inscribed 'Zaandam / Holland' verso, bears artist's wax stamp verso, 40.5 x 61 cm. 

Provenance: 
Private Collection, UK (by descent). 

Note: 
The present work is a particularly charming example of Dommersen's tranquil harbour scenes, and recalls, for example, his works which sold at Bonhams, London, 17 October 2018, lot 62 (£2,250), and at Sotheby's, London, on 24 November 1999, lot 519 (£8,625). 

Hailing from the renowned Dommersen family of Amsterdam painters, Pieter Cornelis specialised in painting seascapes, riverscapes, harbour scenes, shipwrecks and seaside views, and was particularly inspired by the maritime works of Hermanus Koekkoek Senior (1815-1882). Having worked in Holland and Brussels, he moved to England in 1860, and there painted quintessentially Dutch seascapes for the British market, such as the present work. He signed his works which were painted in England 'P.C. Dommersen' and those painted in Holland 'P.C. Dommershuijzen'. In England, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the British Institution amongst others, and, although much acclaimed during his lifetime, as 19th-century maritime scholar Denys Brook-Hart noted, it wasn't until the 1960s when his talents were fully recognised. 

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