Object details
Accession number
P21s24
Description
Stolen in 1990.
Provenance
Possibly in the collection of Tymen Jacobsz Hinloopen (1572-1637), Amsterdam by 1644. (as a painting of St. Peter's ship)
Collection of Jacques Specx (1588/89-1652), a Governor General of the East Indies, Amsterdam by 1653.
Collection of Jacob Jacobsz Hinloopen (1644-1705), a burgomaster and sheriff, Amsterdam by 1705.
Collection of Johannes Coop (d. 1746), a calico-printer, Amsterdam.
Collection of Gerrit Braamcamp (1699-1771), Amsterdam before 1750.
Purchase by J. Wubbels at the Braamcamp sale, Amsterdam on 31 July 1771 for 4360 guilders, lot 172.
Collection of John Hope (1737-1784), Amsterdam.
By descent to Philippina Barbera van der Hoeven (d. 1790), widow of John Hope, Amsterdam in 1784.
By descent to Thomas Hope (1769-1831), Adrian Elias Hope (1772-1834), and Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839) sons of John Hope and Philippina Barbera van der Hoeven, Amsterdam in 1790.
Collection of Adrian Elias Hope (1772-1834) and Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839) under the guardianship of their cousin, Henry Hope (about 1739-1811) in 1794. Moved to London.
Collection of Henry Philip Hope possibly by 1802 and exhibited at the home of his eldest brother, Thomas Hope (1769-1831), London in 1819.
By descent to Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862), son of Thomas Hope, Surrey in 1839.
By descent to Adèle Bichat Hope (d.1887), widow of Henry Thomas Hope, in 1862.
By descent to Henry Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope (d.1941), grandson of Adèle Bichat Hope and the 8th Duke of Newcastle, London in 1884.
Purchased by the art dealers Asher Wertheimer and Colnaghi & Co. from Henry Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope in 1898.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Colnaghi & Co. in September 1898 for £6,000, through Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), American art historian.
Stolen in 1990.
Marks
Signed, on rudder: Rembrant. f/1633
Bibliography
Arnold Houbraken. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlandtsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen, I (Amsterdam, 1718), p. 260. (as "St. Peter's boat")
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 14.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 169.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 295-96, ill.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 184.
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