Signed and inscribed with the location on the verso Op de Selon te Zien op Beekhuizen/ in Gelderland/ D Kerkhoff. 1814

Black chalk, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with white and gum arabic

570 x 482 mm. (22 x 19 in.)

SOLD TO AN INSTITUTION IN THE NETHERLANDS

Kerkhoff mainly drew watercolours and drawings, but he also worked as a designer in a wall paper factory of Pieter Barbiers, where he worked till 1796. He also worked for engravers and etchers. He did not work for eight years, but then he started working again in the early 1800s and his best period is regarded as 1808-1814. He worked in towns such as Amsterdam, Haarlem, Utrecht, Arnhem, Nijmegen. In 1814 he was made a member of Felix Meritis.

There are other landscape drawings by Kerkhoff are in Bowdoin College and in the Rijksprentenkabinett, and indeed a watercolour of a Town view also executed in 1814 in Utrecht1.

1. Bowdoin, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College, 7 May1985 and elsewhere, number 107, and Vienna, Vienna Oberes Belvedere, Auf der Suche nach dem Golden Zeitalter-Netherlandish Painting from the Romantic Era, 13 May and elsewhere 1986, number 8.