Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)

Environs de Maestricht

Signed and dated 1906

Pastel on paper

26 x 40 cm

(SOLD to Limburgs Museum)

Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)

Sunset: clouds over the sea, Le Havre

Signed and dated Havre 1903

Pastel on paper

29 x 37 cm

Provenance: Atelier ten Cate, Rue Faubourg du Temple, Paris

Frantz Charlet (1862-1928)

In love with a little smoker, Volendam

Signed

Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm

The Belgian painter Charlet was one of the founders and a member of the famous Art Group Les XX (1882)

In 1883 he travelled with Theo van Rijsselberghe to Algeria and Morocco in search for new light and different subject matter. He then in 1885 he visited in the company of a.o. the renowned American painter Whistler the villages of Volendam and Marken in Holland

Jean Maxime Claude (1823-1904)

A study of bittern legs

Stamped with monogram

Oil on canvas laid down on panel

30 x 40 cm

Henk de Court Onderwater (1877-1905)

A self-portrait in cape and top hat

Signed and inscribed Paris

Charcoal and pastel on paper

37 x 26 cm

Robert Crommelynck (1895-1968)

Femme fatale

Signed and dated ‘18

Pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour on paper

17 x 11.5 cm

Crommelynck is an artist from Liege, Belgium
Many of his works are in the Musee des Beaux-Arts Liege

From September 2023 until the end of February 2025 in the Gallery Noir at Museum the Bovarie in Liege an exposition was held of his drawings, a donation directly from the family of the artist

Emile Delrue (1878-1928)

African Woman holding a votive figurine

Signed

Pen and ink on paper

24 x 14 cm

Jean Delvin (1853-1922)

Hippos

Signed

Pencil on paper

17.5 x 24 cm

Siemen Dijkstra (b.1968)

Long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus)

Signed and dated no.2 21 augustus 2015, and inscribed with title

Pen and ink and watercolour on paper

11.5 x 17.5 cm

Siemen Dijkstra (b.1968)

A mole

Signed and dated 4 juni 2013 Talpa no 2

Watercolor and gouache on paper

10 x 17.5 cm

Dijkstra had solo-exhibitions amongst others the Fondation Custodia (a bois perdu, 2020)  in Paris and Drents Museum, Assen

Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)

La Tulipe jaune; The yellow tulip

Signed, signed again and inscribed with title on the reverse

Oil on canvas

46.5 x 33 cm

To be dated circa 1925-26

This painting will be accompanied by both a certificate of authentification from the Institute Wildenstein, Paris, dated 19 october 1992, reference number 92.10.19.1312.25 and with a handwritten photo certificate by the daughter of the artist Dolly van Dongen (1905-1987)

Exhibited Laren, Singer Laren, geschilderde bloemen, 7 May-8 October 2019; Doesburg, Lalique museum, Art Nouveau en Japonisme, 17 May 2016-15 July 2017

Willem Dooyewaard (1892-1980)

Japanese Pilgrim, Kyoto

Signed twice, signed again and inscribed with title on a old label on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

53.5 x 43.5 cm

To be dated 1930-31

Henri Louis Dupray (1841-1909)

A uniform jacket of a French Grenadier (drummer)

Annotated on the reverse

Watercolour on paper

29 x 24 cm

To be dated 1889

(SOLD)

Otto Eerelman (1839-1926)

The Racecourse, Brussels

Signed and dated 1874 Bruxelles

Pencil on paper

34 x 82 cm

Exhibited: Amersfoort, Museum Flehite, Groote in de kunst, 13 april-24 June 2024

We like to thank Harry J. Kraay, author on the Eerelman monography, for his entry on the drawing which I am delighted to send by mail if asked for

Anna Egter van Wissekerke (1872-1969)

Vanitas; a skull on a book

Signed and dated 1937

Oil on canvas

28 x 37 cm

Charles Victor Ensinck (1846-1914)

The Lithographer

Signed

Oil on panel

20.5 x 26 cm

(Sold to the Katrin Bellinger Collection)

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Convex and Concave (Hol en Bol)

Signed, and numbered ed. 30/44 II

Lithograph on wove paper

(Bool 399)

27.5 x 33.5 cm

To be dated 1955

A comparable Convex ad Concave sold at Christie’s London in 2025 for about €38.000

Jan van Essen (1854-1936)

The Art Lover

Signed and dated 1891

Oil on panel

21.5 x 18 cm

(SOLD)

Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896)

Joseph explains the dreams of the wine taster and the baker in an Egyptian prison (Gen.40:19)

Signed and dated 1863

Watercolor on paper

25.5 x 34 cm

A prepatory sketch in pencil is in the collection of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

(SOLD)

Leon Victor Fontan (1884-1965)

An elegant man

Signed, and signed again and inscribed Rue Beethoven 17 Paris

Oil on canvas

82 x 108 cm

In an original period frame

Fontan illustrated the first covers for the books of Arsene Lupin

French School, second half 19th century

A pair of elegant fur-lined slippers

Oil on panel

10 x 15 cm

French (Lyon) School, 19th century

Peaches

Pastel on paper

20.5 x 30 cm

Provenance: private collection, purchased with Huguette Beres, Paris

(SOLD)

Gabriel-Rousseau (1876-1951)

Place de la Bourse with the Palais Brongniart, Paris

Signed and dated 1905

Oil on canvas

51 x 60 cm

German-Franco School, 19th century

Clouds - a sketch

Signed with indistinct monogram

Marouflé

27,5 x 23 cm

Julie de Graag (1877-1924)

Still life with a turtle box and a skull of a hornbill

Signed and dated 1917

Oil on canavs laid down on cardboard

27 x 33 cm

(SOLD)

Jan Willem Grinswis Plaat Stultjes (1898-1934)

A costume design for the Death in Elckerlijc

Pencil, black chalk and watercolor on paper

36.5 x 27 cm

To be dated 1924

Provenance: from the family of the artist, Ghent, Belgium

Elckerlijc is a late 15th century play

(SOLD)

Rene Hanin (1871-1943)

Algerian Woman

Signed

Oil on cardboard

75.5 x 46.5 cm

To be dated circa 1925-27

The artist lived and worked in Algeria and France

In 1925 he exhibited in Galerie Georges Petit, Paris

Willem Hekking (1825-1904)

Oranges on a branch

Signed

Watercolor on paper

18 x 14 cm

(SOLD)

Henk Helmantel (b.1945)

Stil life with lemons

Signed and dated 2020, and signed again juli 2020

Oil on board

20 x 39 cm

Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974)

On the Beach

With artist’s studio stamp on the reverse

Oil on cardboard

27.5 x 35 cm

(SOLD)

Tjitske Geertruida Maria van Hettinga Tromp (1872-1962)

A still life with earthenware objects by Joseph Mendes da Costa

Signed with monogram and dated 1947

Oil on canvas

32 x 28 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague; Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Haarlem; Collection Meentwijck, Bussum/Grou

The painter van Hettinga Tromp and the sculptor Joseph Mendes da Costa (1863-1939) were friends. In the monography on Mendes da Costa (2015) by Louk Tilanus the objects on the painting are the numbers KN 24 (Flesvaasje met apenkoppen), KN 34b (bekertje met uil) and D7c (de zieke aap)

(SOLD)

Josse Impens (1840-1905)

The Wine lover

Signed

Oil on panel

21 x 16 cm

Isaac Israels (1865-1934)

Tuilleries, Paris

Signed

Oil on canvas

39 x 61 cm

To be dated 1910

We like to thank Mrs Willemien Vlieger-de Mol in helping to catalogue this work

Isaac Israëls (1865-1934)

A Young Beauty in Paris

Signed

Oil on canvas

45 x 37 cm

To be dated 1906

Provenance: Kunsthandel Ivo Bouman, The Hague,1980, cat.no.6; Kunsthandel Pieter A Scheen, The Hague 1984

Literature: Tableau Art Magazine, April, 1984, vol.6

(SOLD)

Italian School, first half 19th century

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy

Oil on canvas

56 x 72.5 cm

(SOLD)

Italian School (second half 19th century)

Hands, one holding a pencil (?)

Oil on two sheets of paper

23.5 x 21.5 cm

Italian School (second half 19th century)

The hand of the framemaker

Oil on paper, octogonal

20.5 x 22 cm

Attributed to Bernardo Celaentano (1835-1863)

Albert Jarach (1874-1962)

The Hat Box, Boite a Chapeau

Signed

Pencil and watercolour on paper

30.5 x 24.5 cm

Tinus de Jongh (1885-1942)

View of the Dam with 'Naatje', Amsterdam, on a rainy day

Signed and dated 1912

Watercolor and bodycolor on paper

40 x 50 cm

A very comparable watercolor by the artist is located in the Atlas Dreesmann, Stadsarchief Amsterdam

After an artistic career in Amsterdam de Jongh emigrated to South Africa in 1921 where he became and even more renowned artist

Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)

La Saone, Lyon

Signed and dated Lyon 23 aout 1874

Pencil, black chalk and watercolor on paper

16 x 30 cm

Literature: Victorine Heftig, J.B. Jongkind sa vie son oeuvre son epoque, 1975, no.633

Eugeen Joors (1850-1910)

Portrait (selfportrait?) of a bearded man

Signed

Oil on canvas

33.5 x 23.5 cm, in a period frame

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839-1902)

Studies of hands and Arms (2)

Oil on canvas

26 x 17.5 cm and 20 x 22 cm

Harm Kamerlingh Onnes (1893-1985)

Flowers in a vase

Signed with monogram

Oil on board

23 x 17.5 cm

Provenance: kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, The Hague

(SOLD)

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (1822-1891)

Point d’empechement? Non pas pour les marchands

Signed and dated Amsterdam 1856

Pencil on paper

13 x 21.5 cm

Toon Kelder (1894-1973)

Abstract composition

Signed and dated ‘59

Oil on panel

48 x 55 cm

Provenance: Collection Klasema, Wouwse Plantage, the Netherlands

Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn (1817-1897)

A view of Palace Huis ten Bosch, the Hague

Signed

Oil on panel

23 x 37 cm

To be dated circa 1870-75

During the period the painting was painted King Willem III en Queen Sophie used Huis ten Bosch as their summer residence

Wilhelmina ‘Willy’ Cuperus-Krill (1905-1991)

A Snake Dancer holding a Lotus Flower

Signed, and signed again and dated 1939 on the reverse

Oil on panel

75 x 53 cm

The artist lived and worked on the Parklaan 43, Bilthoven

Ger Langeweg (1891-1970)

A still life with a statue of Buddah pears and eggplant

Signed

Pastel on paper

55 x 73 cm

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie’s Amsterdam, 7 March 2000, lot 555

Literature: Ger Langeweg, Teekeningen (introducution by Charles B. Timmer), Amsterdam, 1946, plate 6

Frans Lebret (1820-1909)

Holy Oak near Oosterhout, North Brabant, the Netherlands

Signed with initials and annotated

Oil on paper laid down on panel

28 x 34 cm

This Holy Oak is a so-called summer oak and is still visible at the Vrachelsestraat close the Achterstraat in Oosterhout.
 It has been suggested that this historical Oak is planted in the sixteenth century on the exact same site where in 1250 the original oak was situated

Bart van der Leck (1876-1958)

Roses in a glass vase

Signed with initials and dated ’24

Charcoal on paper

28 x 47 cm

Provenance: Christie’s Amsterdam, 4.12.2001, lot 214 (€ 4.500)

Victor Lecomte (1856-1920)

An elegant paintress - a sketch

Signed

Oil on cardboard

16.5 x 12 cm

(SOLD)

Frederik Lintz (1824-1909)

A dead hare - a painter’s palette

Signed

Oil on panel

22.5 x 13.5 cm

Christiaan Lodewijk Loder (1817-1896)

Lions sneaking up an Arab camp

Signed with initials and dated 1887

Watercolour on paper

31 x 48 cm

Adrien Lucy (1794-1875)

Ostriches in a mountainous landscape

Signed and dated 1861 a Montredon and dated again 1871 in dedication to St. Hillaire

Pen and ink, watercolor and gouache on paper

37 x 49 cm

This work is dedicated to the Zoologist Albert Geoffroy Saint Hillaire (1835-1919) who has been director of the so-called Jardins d’Acclimation in a.o. Bois de Boulogne (Paris) and Marseille

Albert(o) Lynch (1860-1950)

An elegant and fashionable beauty in an interior

Signed

Pastel on paper

50 x 80 cm

Provenance: purchased by the present owner with Kunsthandel Constant Vecht, Amsterdam, 2001

Lynch enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was subsequently a pupil of Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) a painter of mainly portraits

It has been suggested that Lynch got artistic advice from William Bougereau (1825-1905)

Jacob Maris (1837-1899)

Shellfisher on Scheveningen Beach

Signed

Oil on canvas

50 x 80 cm

(SOLD)

Adrien-Jean le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958)

Boats on a river in a harbour, (Belgium?)

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

To be dated circa 1911-1912

Menno van Meeteren Brouwer (1882-1974)

Aristocracy

Signed and annotated

Pencil, pen and black ink on paper

33 x 20.5 cm

Salvador Mege (1854-1939)

The Niagara Falls

Signed and dated 1887

Oil on canvas

29 x 56.5 cm

The artist originated from Bayonne, France, and made his debut at the Salon, Paris in 1879

In 1887, 1888 and 1889 he traveled both Canada and America where he painted for instance a portrait of sitting Bull in 1889. Next to the work here presented he also executed ice skating on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia

Fritz Mock (1867-1919)

Beach fun, Zandvoort

Signed and dated Zandvoort 1913

Watercolor on paper

25 x 34 cm

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)

Trees along river Gein

Signed

Watercolour on paper

51 x 75 cm

To be dated 1906

Provenance: Mrs.J.van der Hoeven Leonard-van de Water who received the work from Mondriaan himself; thence by descent to the heirs; their sale Christie's Amsterdam , 13 december 1980, lot 189

Literature: Welsh/Joosten, Piet Mondriaan; catalogue raisonne, Blaricum, 1998, pp. 335-336, A451

Carel de Neree tot Babberich (1880-1908)

Sprookjesverteller; Fairy tale teller

Pencil and pen and ink on paper

36 x 22 cm

Literature; Sander Bink, Verfijnde lijnen, Zwolle, 2025, p.282, no.105 (illus. and as whereabouts unknown)

Kaspar Niehaus (1889-1974)

Mother and Child

Oil on canvas on board

62.5 x 39 cm

To be dated circa 1926

Exhibited: Arnhem, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Het aardse paradijs van Kaspar Niehaus, 14 juli-16 september 2007, cat. no. 13 (illustrated)

Dirk Nijland (1881-1955)

The Haringvliet

Signed with initials

Oil on panel

21.5 x 26.5 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, the Hague where purchased by the family of the vendor

The Haringvliet is a former estuary of the North Sea in the Province of Zuid-Holland between de Hoeksche Waard and Goeree-Overflakkee

Dirk Nijland (1881-1955)

Hommage to Joseph Conrad

Signed with initials

Black chalk on paper

39 x 27 cm. Unframed

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-English author of mostly famous novels like Heart of Darkness (1899). Remarkable in the foreground of the drawing is the large lithography stone which makes it a typical image motif

A comparable painting by Nijland is in the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven since 1936.

The artist had a great admiration for Conrad

Louis Noël (1838-1925)

A Hand

Signed and dated 1906

White marble

w.27.5 cm x b. 15 cm x h. 10 cm

Cor Noltee (1903-1967)

Atelierhoekje; Coin de studio

Signed

Oil on canvas laid down on board

38 x 30 cm

David Oyens (1842-1902)

Studio Corner (Atelier hoekje)

Signed

Oil on panel

31 x 41.5 cm

To be dated circa 1885

Provenance: Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, circa 1970; Collection Anton Vlaskop (1970’s); Collection Victor Bourgeais (1970-80); Galerij Pantheon, Gand, (1980); private collection

Exhibited: The Hague, Kunstmuseum, de gebroeders Oyens, een Nederlandse schilders tweeling in Brussel, 12 April-13 Juli 2008; Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Belgium, Charliermuseum, Les jumeaux Oyens, 10 MArch-30 May 2010

(SOLD)

Willem Paerels (1878-1962)

Scheveningen Beach

Signed

Oil on canvas

72 x 74 cm

Exhibited: Brussels, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 3MArch-16 April 1978; Laren, Singer, 27 April-11 June 1978

(SOLD)

Aldo Pagliacci (1913-1991)

An Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church burial procession (probably the Simien Mountains region of North Ethiopia)

Oil on panel

55.5 x 42 cm

Exhibited: Georgetown, U.S.A., Obelisk Gallery, February 1958

The artist took part in the 1929/30 Venice Biennale when he was only 17 of age

In 1936 he left for Eritrea

Pagliacci is a real so-called traveller-painter

He lived and worked in a.o. Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Holland

In february 1958 he exhibited about 18 works in the famous Oblisk Gallery in Georgetown

Some of these showcased an Ethiopean subject matter

The Gallery announcement of that time reads: “Aldo Pagliacci’s exquisite  little paintings are a continuing delight, with their glowing colors, precise details and aura of surrealism”

Jan Portielje (1829-1908)

An Oriental Beauty

Signed

Oil on panel

27.5 x 24 cm

Victor Emile Prouve (1858-1943)

Centaurs

Five drawings in pencil or ink and one wood engraving

30 x 50 cm

In a period decorative Nancy frame probably executed by the artist

Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Laura Pecheur, Victor Prouve, december 2001

Ernest Quost (1844-1931)

Great Blue Herons

Signed with artist’s stamp on the reverse

Charcoal on blue paper

40 x 30 cm

Quost was essential a Parisian painter and pastelist and had his first exhibition at the Salon de Paris in 1866. He drew many sketches as he said "to store up in their spirit the most memories of nature as possible"

Herman Richir (1866-1942)

A classical beauty

Signed

Oil on panel

46 x 37.5 cm

Theo van Rijsselberghe (1862-1926)

Nu blonde, buste de dos

Signed with monogram and dated 1923

Oil on panel

27 x 22 cm

Literature: Ronald Feltkamp, Theo van Rijsselberghe, cat no.1923-002, Bruxelles/Paris, 2003

Coba Ritsema (1876-1961)

Still live with Japanese 'scheerbekken'

Signed

Pastel on paper

57 x 72.5 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel Francois Buffa &Fils, Amsterdam; Mrs Hartjens, Stadionweg 60, Amsterdam

Exhibited: The Hague, Haags Gemeente Museum, stillevens en bloemen van 30 schilders van heden, mei-juni 1940, no.72

Coba Ritsema was one of the eight members of the so called 'Amsterdamse Joffers'

Exhibited in the Coba Ristema Exhibition in the Frans Halsmuseum from 19 september 2025 - 1 March 2026

Tjieke Roelofs-Bleckmann (1877-1976)

A bouquet of flowers

Signed with initials

Oil on panel

25 x 20.5 cm

Provenance: private collection purchased with Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, The Hague, circa 25 years ago

Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820-1898)

Alpine studies, Gosau-Zwieselalm, Austria

Annotated on the reverse

Oil on paper

34 x 24 cm

(SOLD)

Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820-1898)

Birches - a study

Oil on cardboard

36.5 x 31.5 cm

Jean Francois Xavier Roffiaen (1820-1898)

Clouds

Oil on carton

13.5 x 35.5 cm

(SOLD)

Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820-1898)

Clouds over Alpine peaks, Meyringen, Switzerland

Inscribed and dated meyringen juillet 1847

Oil on paper

17 x 28.5 cm

Jean Francois Xavier Roffiaen (1820-1898)

Pine tree in the Swiss Alps - a study

Signed and dated aout 1855, and annotated

Pencil on paper

42.5 x 29 cm

(SOLD)

Louis Alexander Saalborn (1891-1957)

View of the Zeeweg with the C.F. Zeilerboulevard, Bergen aan Zee

Signed and signed again on the reverse

Oil on canvas

64.5 x 76 cm

Exhibited: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 29 august ’57

G. Saint-Georges (19th/20th century)

A trompe-l’oeil

Signed

Oil on canvas

54 x 65 cm

Andries Schelfhout (1787-1870)

Winter and Summer; riverlandscapes

Both signed

Oil on panel

33 x 42.5 cm and 34 x 43 cm

Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870)

A young lady holding a basket

Signed

Oil on panel

17.5 x 20.5 cm

To be dated circa 1862

Literature: cf. Jan de Meere, Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870); een leven tussen licht en donker, 2012,p.161 (illus.)

Paul Schultze (1893-1974)

A Peacock

Signed

Watercolor and gouache on paper

23.5 x 16 cm

Georges Scott (1873-1942)

Idyll Moment

Signed, dated Carolles Septembre 1900, dedicated to Monsieur et Madame Bellanger

Oil on panel

16 x 24.5 cm

This work was executed in the French village of Carolles

This tiny place nicknamed La Vallee des peintres, along the shoreline of Normandy, offered in the second half of the 19th century a unique setting and artist’s resort for several painters like Emile Badoux, Per Ekstrom, Armand Guillaumin and Louis Valtat

Georges Scott befriended his collegue Albert Bellenger (b.1846) and his wife in Carolles

Scott was both a history-and portrait painter famous for his portraits of Mussolini (Galleria d’arte moderna, Rome) and of King Constantinos I of Greece (Presidential Palace, Athens) and, during the early 20th century, a warcorrespondent and illustrator for the French magazine L’Íllustration

(SOLD)

Fred Smits (1915-1988)

A little house on the prairie

Signed

Oil on board

45 x 65 cm

(SOLD)

Fred Smits (1915-1988)

‘Of iemand uit een stoomtrein later’

Signed, dated 1971 and inscribed on the reverse

Oil on board

58 x 83 cm

The inscription on the reverse is from a poem by the Flemish poet Jozef Eijckmans (1907-1996)

An exhibition of works by Smits was held at Pulchri Studio, The Hague, from 17 February-3 March 1979

Sorella (Thérèse Ansingh, 1883-1968)

Spring Flowers

Signed

Oil on canvas

50 x 60 cm

Frans Stamkart (1874-1947)

Girl with a Pearl

Signed with initial

Oil on canvas

100 x 70 cm

Stamkart is a little known Dutch painter, draughtsman and designer working in Amsterdam in the early 20th century producing dream like imagery. His foremost mystical and occult are very rare and sought after. He seems to be influenced by for instance the symbolist artists like Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau. Some of his drawings (Salome) and oils (de Avondgang) are in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Kunstmuseum The Hague

Carl Sterry (b.1861)

The Centaurs Cyllarus en Hylonome

Signed and dated 1894

Oil on canvas

127 x 98 cm

In an original frame

The subject is taken from Ovidius’ Metamorphosis, 12, 393)

Towards the end of the 19th century the subject with Centaurs was executed by many artists like Gustave Moreau, Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck

Louis Storm van 's-Gravensande (1861-1930)

A Backyard

Signed and dated 1896

Pen and black ink on paper

57 x 45 cm

Georges Van der Straeten (1856-1941)

An Allegory of Transport and Trade

Signed

Pencil on paper

31.5 x 24.5 cm

Provenance: collection Professor and Francoise de Schryver-Van der Straeten

Van der Straeten was a famous Belgian sculptor from Ghent who moved to Paris in 1883 and showed his work at his first salon in 1885 and continued to exibited there until 1912. He became Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1903

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860-1931)

Portrait of Paul Artnzenius

Signed

Oil on canvas

39.5 x 31.5 cm

Exhibited: Leiden, Museum de Lakenhal, Tijdgenoten Verster, Summer 1957

Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)

A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo

Signed, oil on paper

14 x 10.5 cm

Emile Tremblay (1855-1935)

Portrait of the painter Albert Lebourg (1849-1928)

Stamped with monogram, and with atelier stamp on the reverse

Oil on canvas

13.5 x 19.5 cm

Robert Verly (1901-1963)

Mother and child, D.R. Congo

Signed and dated 1958

Oil on canvas laid down on board

58.5 x 47.5 cm

In an original period African frame
 
Robert Verly was a Belgian administrator and painter in Congo in the 1950’s

He set up ateliers to preserve and pass on the craftmanship of the last surviving Congolese sculptors.
 Verly wanted to protect the sculptors from external (Western, commercial) influences and stimulate the continued development of the indigenous art styles

His paintings are seldom appear on the market and are therefore very rare

Antony Viot (1817-1886)

The artist at work en plein air

Signed

Watercolour on paper

17 x 24.5 cm: And two watercolours of a mountainous landscape and a riverlandscape by the same hand

The artist, trained by Alexandre Calame, is nicknamed 'le peintre de la Dombes' and used to work also in la Bresse (Vosges) and le Bugey, France. He exposed in the Salon of paris in 1859 and in 1866.

His works hang in Museum de Bourg-en-Bresse (Vue des Dombes) and in the Museum of Nimes (Paysage de Bresse)

Jan Voerman Senior (1857-1941)

Tjalken on the cloudy river IJssel

Oil on panel

22.5 x 41.5 cm

Exhibited: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Herdenkingstentoonstelling, 20-12/ 1941- 1-2/1942, cat.no. 32 (as Shipping and Clouds)

(SOLD)

Henry Emile Vollet (1861-1945)

Le petit Prince Vietnamien

Signed

Oil on paper on cardboard

27 x 22.5 cm

From 1903 onwards Vollet painted Vietnamese subjects.
 His work is in the collection of Musee d’Orsay, Paris

Maria Vos (1824-1906)

A still life with a roulette wheel, a second Empire ormulu perfume burner, playing cards and butterflies

Signed and dated 1875

Oil on panel

21 x 30 cm

Provenance: Collection D.A. Hoogendijk, 'Frankenstaete', Bergen

J.J. de W. (20th century)

Danse macabre moderne

Signed with initials and dated ‘23

Pastel on paper

64.5 x 45 cm

Charles Joseph Watelet (1867-1954)

Femme fatale at Folies Bergere, Paris

Signed and dated Paris 1903

Black chalk, charcoal and watercolour on paper

50.5 x 34.5 cm

Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952)

View of the Arsenal (Scheepvaart Museum), Amsterdam

Signed

Oil on canvas

65 x 90 cm

To be dated 1915-16

Provenance: Christie’s Amsterdam, 21 november 2013, lot 377 (sold to the present owner for €43.500)

Literature: Amersfoort, Flehite Museum, Catalogue to the Exhibition 'Wolter en het Water', 2 December 2023-1 April 2024, p 48 (illus.)

Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952)

View of the Thames, London, with the Tower Bridge in the distance

Signed

Oil on canvas

76 x 93 cm

Provenance: probably from the heirs of friend and collegue of the artist the painter Meindert Butter (1877-1940)

Marcel Ysewyn (1921-2014)

Spring (Lente)

Signed and dated 1960

Gouache on cardboard

25.5 x 35 cm

Exhibited: Gand, Vereniging der Gentse Kunstenaars, 50^e Salon National des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 1960

Adrianus van Zeegen (1881-1966)

Fantasy

Signed

Oil on canvas

40 x 109 cm

Provenance: private collection, the Netherlands