Showing posts with label Edward Speelman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Speelman. Show all posts

Dec 21, 2018

Edward Speelman in America

Landscape with a Wheatfield. 

Jacob van Ruisdael



Below is a partial list of artworks which arrived in American museums in part thanks to the work of  UK art dealer Edward Speelman. (source: Getty Provenance Index Public Collections).


Even incomplete, the Getty Provenance Index Public Collections list gives a good idea of the role of Speelman in forming American collections, including:
  • 17 paintings at the J. P. Getty Museum
  • 15 paintings at the Norton Simon
  • 3 painting in Boston MFA and Saint Louis
  • and more
To see the complete, up-to-date list go to the museums' websites. See also "The Legacy of Edward Speelman"

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GPI: Speelman in Provenance
InstitutionArtist NameTitleAccession No.
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumHOOCH, PIETER DE (Dutch)A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy84.PA.47
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumGENTILESCHI, ORAZIO (Italian)Rest on the Flight into Egypt71.PA.12 [deaccessioned]
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumRUBENS, PETER PAUL (Flemish), workshopThe Meeting of David and Abigail73.PA.68
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumLISSE, DIRCK VAN DER (Dutch)Landscape with Bacchanalian Procession72.PB.12
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumREMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (Dutch)An Old Man in Military Costume78.PB.246
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumRUISDAEL, JACOB VAN (Dutch)Landscape with Wheat Field83.PA.278
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumHOLBEIN, HANS (THE YOUNGER) (German), attributedAllegory with Horse and Rider80.PB.72
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumCUYP, AELBERT (Dutch)A View of the Maas at Dordrecht83.PB.272
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumBORCH, GERARD TER (II) (Dutch)A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn83.PB.232
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumSTEEN, JAN (Dutch)The Drawing Lesson83.PB.388
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumSAENREDAM, PIETER JANSZ. (Dutch)The Interior of St. Bavo, Haarlem85.PB.225
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumKONINCK, PHILIPS DE (Dutch)Panoramic Landscape85.PA.32
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumBORCH, GERARD TER (II) (Dutch)Interior of a Stable86.PB.631
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumGOSSAERT, JAN (Netherlandish)Francisco de los Cobos (?)88.PB.43
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumSCHALCKEN, GODFRIED (Dutch)The Annunciation86.PB.464
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumBECCAFUMI, DOMENICO (Italian)Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata97.PB.25
Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty MuseumBECCAFUMI, DOMENICO (Italian)The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena97.PB.26
Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of ArtsBRUGGHEN, HENDRICK TER (Dutch)The Gamblers60.17
Princeton, NJ, Art Museum, Princeton UniversityBATONI, POMPEO GIROLAMO (Italian)Madonna and Child in Glory77-51
Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis Art MuseumPYNACKER, ADAM (Dutch)Landscape with a Goatherd150:1982
Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis Art MuseumHOBBEMA, MEINDERT (Dutch)View along the Amstel1:1982
Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis Art MuseumOSTADE, ADRIAEN VAN (Dutch)Peasants Dancing in a Tavern147:1966
Washington, DC, National Gallery of ArtWTEWAEL, JOACHIM ANTONISZ. (Dutch)Moses Striking the Rock1972.11.1
Washington, DC, National Gallery of ArtDEVIS, ARTHUR (British)Portrait of a Man1964.2.3
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine ArtsWITTE, PIETER DE (PIETRO CANDIDO) (Flemish)The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine1980.72
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine ArtsGELDER, ARENT DE (Dutch)Rest on the Flight to Egypt57.182
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine ArtsRUYSDAEL, SALOMON VAN (Dutch)View of Beverwijk1982.396
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumBIJLERT, JAN HERMANSZ. VAN (Dutch)Portrait of an Officer in ArmourM.1978.18.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumCLAUDE LORRAIN (CLAUDE GELLÉE) (French)Landscape with Jacob and Laban and his DaughtersM.1976.1.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumBERCHEM, NICOLAES PIETERSZ. (Dutch)A Pastoral SceneF.1972.15.4.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumFYT, JAN (Flemish)Still Life with Red CurtainF.1972.36.3.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumGOYEN, JAN JOSEPHSZ. VAN (Dutch)A River Landscape with a View of OverschieF.1969.49.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumKEYSER, THOMAS DE (Dutch), circlePortrait of a ManF.1972.15.3.1.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumKEYSER, THOMAS DE (Dutch), circlePortrait of a WomanF.1972.15.3.2.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumMAES, NICOLAES (Dutch)A Family Portrait with a View of DordrechtF.1972.15.2.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumMAGNASCO, ALESSANDRO (LISSANDRINO) (Italian)Interior with MonksF.1973.34.1.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumMETSU, GABRIEL (Dutch)Woman at her ToiletteF.1972.15.1.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumMOILLON, LOUISE (French)Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries, and GooseberriesF.1972.36.2.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumNEER, AERT VAN DER (Dutch)Winter Scene with Figures Playing GolfF.1972.35.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumSAVERY, ROELANDT (Dutch)Landscape with Animals and BirdsF.1972.36.1.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumVERSPRONCK, JOHANNES CORNELISZ. (Dutch)Portrait of a LadyF.1973.34.2.P
Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon MuseumSAVERY, ROELANDT (Dutch)Landscape with Animals and BirdsF.1972.36.1.P
New York, NY, Frick CollectionBRUEGEL, PIETER (THE ELDER) (Flemish)The Three Soldiers65.1.163


see also : the Legacy of Edward Speelman


Dec 20, 2018

Art Dealers: The Many Names of Koetser

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES
Provenance:
Horatio Granville Murray Stewart, dates unknown; David M. Koetser Gallery, by 1957; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum, January 4, 1957


In the provenance of an artwork, the name "Koetser" can refer to "Koetser Gallery", "David M Koetser", "Leonard Koetser", "Brian Koetser", "Henri Koetser", "Asscher, Koetser and Welker" and more.   

How to distinguish them all? 

At the NGA in Washington, for example, a search on Koetser will return three possibilities:

NGA search choices for Koetser


Koetser is known to have used several pseudonyms in art dealing transactions. Aliases are said to include: "H. Cevat", "Rocker", "Level" and "Kaye".




Like Speelman, with whom Koetser sometimes does business, Koetser appears in the provenance of numerous paintings at institutions such as the Seattle Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. 


For a few examples see:

https://www.openartdata.org/2019/03/explorations-in-digital-art-history.html

Dec 19, 2018

Edward Speelman and the Toledo Museum of Art

https://ia800307.us.archive.org/10/items/europeanpainting00tole/europeanpainting00tole.pdf

In 1976 the Toledo Museum of Art published a 404 page catalog of its European paintings.

(see also: The Legacy of Edward Speelman and Speelman in America)

Speelman is mentioned ten times in the 1967 catalog in connection with the following artworks:

Shepherdess Reading a Sonnet pl. 97 [1628] 

Oil on canvas 41 x 29^ in. (104.2 x 74.9 cm.) Signed and dated upper right: A. Bloemaert. fe:/i628 Ace. no. 55.34
collections: Anthony Aupine, Hoviton, Norfolk?; So- phia Dawson and her descendants, St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor Forest, by 1818-1955; (Sotheby, London, Apr. 6, 1955, lot 96); (Speelman, London).

Dec 17, 2018

The Legacy of Edward Speelman

National Gallery of Art (London) List of works with incomplete provenance from 1933-1945: Flowers in a Vase

The art dealer, Edward Speelman (1910-1994) played an important role in forming many collections. 

As a British soldier in World War II, Speelman arrested the notorious Austrian Nazi Artur Seyss-Inquart who had administered occupied Holland for the Reich  and who would, for his many crimes in Austria, Poland and Holland, be sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. Speelman was assigned to intelligence and worked on the postwar administration of The Netherlands before returning to civilian life.

Below are a few of the artworks that passed through Speelman's hands on their way to famous museums around the world. (Speelman part 1) 

After we have gathered about a hundred examples of provenances that mention Speelman, we'll begin to look for patterns... 


1. National Gallery of Art in London: 

List of works with incomplete provenance from 1933–1945

(Download PDF of NGA UK list)

'Flowers in a Vase' Bequeathed to NG by Edward Speelman (D) in 1994.

NG6549
Provenance
Switzerland, possibly shortly after Second World war; *
acquired from a Canadian family near Genoa in the 1960's or from a private collection near Zollikon, Switzerland around 1970/1972 by Kurt Meissner (D), Zurich, *
Edward Speelman (D), London; bequeathed by Mr. Speelman to NG, 1994
Questions 1933-1945
Whereabouts and provenance until post WWII?
Source for information about Switzerland?
Provenance between post 1945 and 1960's?
Flowers in a Glass Vase Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder 1614


'The Virgin and Child in an Interior' 23 x 15cm. Bought by the NG from Edward Speelman (D), London, 1987

NG6514
Provenance
Melanie von Habsburg-Lothringen, Schloss Seisenegg, Austria;*
Edward Speelman (D), London;*
Questions 1933-1945
Provenance prior to von Habsburg-Lothringen
Acquisition/disposal by ditto
Provenance between von Habsburg-Lothringen/Speelman
Acquisition/disposal
The Virgin and Child in an Interior Workshop of Robert Campin (Jacques Daret?) before 1432


'The Preaching of St John the Baptist' Bought by NG from Edward Spelman (D), 1978

NG6443
Provenance
M.A. Mechen; *
Phillips, London, 14 March 1977*
Edward Speelman (D), London;
Purchased by NG, 1978
Questions 1933-1945
Provenance prior to Mechen
Details and date of acquisition by Mechen
Mechen sold through Phillips 1977?
The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist Cornelis van Haarlem 1602

2. Collectie is Speelman Ltd., Edward 

(122 artworks are listed in the Speelman Ltd collection in the Rijksmuseum - to see them you can download a PDF or use this link.  A separate post will examine in detail the provenances for all of these artworks.  NOTE: If one searches a different way, for every mention of Speelman in provenance, RKD lists 184 results.


Some examples:


Interieur met een schoolmeester die een kind leert lezen, met een spinnende vrouw op de achtergrond

Interior with a schoolteacher learning a child to read, with a woman spinning in the background


  • art dealer Edward Speelman Ltd., London 
    - 1959 
  • art dealer Richard Green, London 
    getoond op TEFAF, Maastricht, 2007-03, 2008-03 en 2009-03
    2007 - 2009 gesignaleerd
  • art dealer Johnny Van Haeften (London), London , inv./cat.nr nr. 6 (cat. EIGHTEEN)
    getoond op TEFAF, Maastricht, maart 2012, 2013 en 2014
    2012 - 2014 gesignaleerd






Stilleven van vijf schelpen op een stenen tafelblad

Still life with two peaches

  • Private collection 
    Verenigd Koninkrijk
    - 1930-02-14 geveild
  • art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam 
    1933 - tentoongesteld
  • art dealer Edward Speelman Ltd., London 
    1984 - gesignaleerd
  • art dealer David Koetser, Zurich/New York 
    2008 - gesignaleerd
  • Private collection 
    Zwitserland
    2008 -


Jacob Hoefnagel Vase with flowers, surrounded by fruit and insects

  • art dealer Edward Speelman Ltd., London 
    - 1959 verkocht
  • art dealer or private collection Piet de Boer, Amsterdam 
    1959 - 1964 

  • Stichting P. en N. de Boer, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr 660
    1964 -

    Space does not permit to display all 122 artworks which mention Speelman. For more, consult the website of the Rikjsmuseum