WILLEM VESTER (DUTCH, 1824-1895)
Skaters on a frozen waterway
indistinctly signed 'Vester' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32⁵⁄₈ x 49¹⁄₂ in. (83 x 126 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Campo, Antwerp, 20 May 1968, lot 419, as by 'Visser (Dutch School)'.
with Frost & Reed, London, inv. no. 45470 as Dutch winter scene.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 12 March 1996, lot 9.
Acquired from the above sale by a private collector, thence by descent.

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