ROBERT WILKINS

ROBERT WILKINS
(circa 1740 London after 1788)Seascape with a ship in a storm.Oil on canvas.Signed lower left on the driftwood: R. Wykins P.63.7 × 76.1 cm.

Lot 6049* - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only

Provenance:
- Hans Klenk collection (1906–1983), Mainz.
- European private collection.

Literature:
Exh. cat. Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings From the Collection of Hans Klenk, ed. Fronia E. Wissman, Schenectady, NYC 1977, p. 64 (as Daniel Wykins).

We thank Dr Pieter van der Merwe for his scholarly assistance in cataloguing this painting on the basis of a photograph.

Oil on canvas, lined. Paint surface well preserved, with a fine network of craquelure and somewhat thin in places. Restored paint losses visible in the lower left third. Stretcher marks and colour abrasion slightly visible along the margins.
Under UV light a few smaller areas of retouching visible on the ships, in the water and in the sky. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Overall in good condition.
Frame: 92.7 × 102.7 cm.

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