1420. A VIEW IN HAARLEM.
Gerrit Berck-Heyde (Dutch: 1638-1698).
Gerrit, and his elder brother, Job, were the sons of a butcher at Haarlem. Gerrit was very skilful in lineal perspective, and reproduced with remarkable fidelity the most complicated architectural views. The brothers worked together a great deal, and Job often painted the figures in Gerrit's pictures. "The pictures of both brothers are remarkable for a broad style of painting, for brilliant sunlight, and careful, but not over elaborate, drawing of details, and the figures are invariably well grouped" (Official Catalogue).
A view of the painter's favourite subject, the market-place of Haarlem. The picture is signed, and dated 1674.