Clearance Pamono Thomas Wyck, View of Mediterranean Landscape, 1660, Oil on Canvas

Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616- Haarlem 1677)
Signed lower left: TWyck (under the floating barrel)
Coastal View of the Mediterranean

ca. 1660

Oil on canvas, 43 x 52 cm, framed 57 x 66 cm.

Provenance:
– Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Old Master Paintings, 18/05/2004, lot 19, Hammer Price: €8,540
– Porro Auction, Milan, Auction 75 Old Master and 19th-Century Paintings, 29/05/2014, Estimate: €15,000-18,000

The work is accompanied by a critical note by Raffaella Colace.

This is a work by the painter Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616 – Haarlem 1677), an important Flemish Golden Age artist originally from Haarlem. He specialized in the creation of splendid landscapes and genre scenes, in this case a captivating view of the Mediterranean, with a fortified city on a rocky promontory and merchants conversing on the shore.

As Dr. Raffaella Colace highlights in her study, the work dates back to the late phase of the painter’s career, in light of the pictorial experiences he gained during his stay in Rome (see Bert W. Meijer, ed., Flemish and Dutch: Paintings from the Lombard Collections, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2002). In particular, it can be compared with the Mediterranean landscape once owned by the Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder Gallery in The Hague (see P. Huys Janssen, The Hoogsteder Exhibition of Dutch Landscapes, Zwolle 1991).

Works dating from 1640 include the View of the Aracoeli (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), the Market Square in the Portico d’Ottavia (private collection), and the View of Naples with Mount Vesuvius Erupting (see In the Shadow of Vesuvius, exhibition catalog edited by Nicola Spinosa, Naples 1990, p. 285), as well as the Port View, with its similarly representational style, published in the exhibition catalog ‘Italian Dutch Landscape Painters of the 17th Century’ (Utrecht 1965, fig. no. 71, pp. 144-46).

Active in Rome between 1640 and 1642—known there by the nickname “Tommaso Fiammingo”—his style was strongly influenced by his Italian sojourn, and in particular by his contact with the group of Northern European painters, almost all Dutch, working in Rome in the mid-17th century, known as the Bamboccianti.

The canvas is in good condition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The work is sold complete with a beautiful gilded frame and comes with a certificate of authenticity and an iconographic .