The Monogrammist DW

The Monogrammist DW

Northern Netherlands, active in the second and third quarter of the 17th Century, ca. 1640-1660

A pair of Coastal Scenes with Sailing Ships on choppy Waters

Both signed with monogram ‘DW’, on the dritwood
Oil on panel
H. 20 cm. W. 30,5 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private collection

REFERENCE LITERATURE
Nagler, G.K. (1860). Die Monogrammisten. Munich: Hirth, nr. 1464, as Denis Waterloo;
Müllenmeister, K.J. (1973). Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts. Vol. I, p. 12;
National Maritime Museum Greenwich (1988). Concise catalogue of oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, p. 275;
Willigen, A. van der & Kinkelder, M.C. de (1993/98, red. 2006). Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Landscape and Marine painters working in oils, active before 1725. The Hague: RKD

CATALOGUE NOTE
The anonymous Monogrammist DW was formally identified as Den(n)is or Dionysius Waterloo (Nagler, 1860, nr. 1464) an invented painters name that got attached to seascapes carrying a monogram which read as ‘DW’. These works are comparable to Justus de Verwer and others in the Amsterdam School, but to date no Denis Waterloo has been identified (Kinkelder, 2006). The present pair of seascapes can be compared to Dutch ships in a breeze by the Monogamist DW, coll. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London, inv./cat.nr BHC0737, both is dimension and subject.  

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