Emil Bührle Collection

Meindert Hobbema

Landscape with an Inn

ca. 1665

Oil on wood

47 x 53.5 cm

Signed lower left: m. hobbema

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Provenance

1Thomas Harvey Catton House • Norwich Dawson Turner, Outlines in Lithography from a Small Collection of Pictures, Yarmouth 1840, p. 39; Francis W. Hawcroft, «Crome and His Patron, Thomas Harvey of Catton», in Connoisseur (144) 1959, pp. 235–237 (n. 18), fig. 10.

2Dawson Turner Yarmouth • ca. 1815 Acquired from the above, Outlines as above, n. (1); Dawson Turner Esq. FRS, (sale cat.) Christie’s, London (14 May 1852), no. 74; Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk, A History of Taste and Influence, Fashion and Collecting, (exh. cat.) Castle Museum, Norwich 1988, no. 59.

3Charles J. Nieuwenhuys London • 1852 Acquired at the above sale, exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

4Charles Scarisbrick Scarisbrick Hall • Lancashire • until [d.] 1861 Sale Charles Scarisbrick, Christie’s London (11 May 1861), no. 46, exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

5J. E. Fordham Sale J. E. Fordham, London (1863), exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

6Charles J. Nieuwenhuys London • 1863 Acquired at the above sale, exh. cat. as above, n. (2).

7Leggatt Brothers London Information given by Mr. Anthony Speelman, London, son of Edward Speelman, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 8 January 2010.

8Edward Speelman London Acquired from the above, information as above, n. (7).

9Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London Acquired from the above for £ 7.075, information as above, n. (7); AStEGB, Sale confirmation from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], signed by F. K. Lloyd, to Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, regarding a group of 10 pictures sold to Bührle for a total sum of £ 40.000 (= CHF 480.000), including Hobbema, Landscape with an Inn. Payment of this amount will be made in two installments, £ 27.000 from a Swiss account in London to Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and £ 13.000 at an exchange rate of 12 CHF=1 £ (= CHF 156.000) to be transferred to Trafo’s account with UBS Zurich.

10Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 October 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 8.500 (with a 6% discount), Sale confirmation as above, n. (9), for 10 pictures, including Hobbema, Landscape with an Inn, with prices for each picture handwritten by Emil Bührle; AStEGB, Payment order, made by Emil Bührle, 1 October 1953, to Ihag Zürich AG for the sum of CHF 156.000 to be transferred to Trafo, Vaduz, and Confirmation of payment from Ihag Zürich AG, executed on 2 October 1953

11Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 152.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1829Second Exhibition of the Works of Ancient and Modern Masters Norfolk and Suffolk Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts • Norwich • 1829 no. 15.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 8.

1970Schok der Herkenning, Het Engelse landschap der Romantiek en zijn Hollandse Inspiratie Mauritshuis • The Hague • 1970–71 no. 75

1971Shock of Recognition, The Landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch Seventeenth-Century School Tate Gallery • London • 1971 no. 69.

1988Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk, A History of Taste and Influence, Fashion and Collecting Castle Museum • Norwich • 1988 no. 59.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 152.

References

1826John Henry Druery Historical and Geographical Notices of Great Yarmouth, etc. London • 1826 • p. 74.

1829John Chambers A General History of the County of Norfolk intended to convey all the information of a Norfolk Tour… Norwich & London • 1829 • vol. 1, p. 304.

1835John Smith A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters vol. 6 • London • 1835 • p. 139, no. 76.

1840Dawson Turner Outlines in Lithography from a Small Collection of Pictures Yarmouth • 1840 • pp. 39 (ill., opposite)–40.

1911Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 4 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1911 • p. 445, no. 224 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909; 2Cambridge 1976).

1959Francis W. Hawcroft «Crome and His Patron, Thomas Harvey of Catton» in Connoisseur (144) • 1959 • pp. 235–237 (n. 18), fig. 10.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 154 (ill.;21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 19–20 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 13 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 317 (ill.).