Two Spanish Men-o'-War off a port on a calm sea

FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
Two Spanish Men-o'-War off a port on a calm sea
with inscription 'waarschijnlijk Spaansch-[...] koning v fregat 20 fl./ Vlaamsch-onbekend [...] c: 1630' (on the old mount)
red chalk, traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark fleur-de-lys
5³⁄₄ x 9¹⁄₂ in. (14.7 x 24.2 cm)

Jonathan Richardson Sen. (1665-1747), London (L. 2183 and 2983, with his shelf mark 'D.40/ Zg. 99./ Lz. 10./ r.', verso of the mount).
John Barnard (died 1784), London (L. 1420 (recto and verso), with his (partially erased) inscripion '9 1/2 by 6' verso of the mount).
Ralph Willett (1719-1795), 1808, (according to William Esdaile's inscription); probably T. Philipe, London, 13 June 1808.
William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (L. 2617) (with his inscription 'Formerly in the coll.s of Jon Richardson/ & John Barnard/ Bonaventuro Peters./ R Willett's coll.n 1808/ P 75'); Christie's, London, 22 June 1840, part of lot 730.
J. Loraine Baldwin, 1878 (according to an inscription on the verso of the mount 'Given to me by/ J. Loraine Baldwin/ 11 sep. 1878').
Adolf Glüenstein (born 1849), Hamburg (L. 123) (with his inscription 'Originalzeichnung von/ Bonaventura Peters' on the verso of the mount).
Anonynous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 75.

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