Loeding, Harmen

Description:

Leiden um 1637 - (nach) 1673
25,5 x 35 cm
Still life of crabs, shrimps and fruits on a pewter plate. Oil/panel, verso remains of an old label in handwriting and label of the art dealer Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam.
Sale Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25 1907, lot 76; art dealer Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam; art dealer, Hans Cramer, The Hague, 1975/76; Sale Christie's, London, Dec. 14 1990, lot 292; Galleria Caretto, Turin, 1991; German private collection. We are grateful to Dr.Fred G. Meijer, Amsterdam for confirming the authorship. Little is known about Harmen Loeding's (also: Harmen Luyding) artistic career. Born c. 1637 in Leiden, he is listed in the painters' guild there from 1664 to 1673, as a master in 1665, and was probably already active as a painter before that. He may have been trained in the workshop of Pieter de Ring (c. 1615-1660), whose work Loeding significantly influenced. The Leiden painter Nicolaes van Gelder (c. 1636-1676), of the same age, also seems to have had an influence on Loeding.