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Lot description
Characteristic for the works of the Haarlem painter Cornelis Beelt are the generously scaled beach scenes with their varying and abundantly painted staffage. Their colourful costumes provide the contrast to the sand painted in ochre tones. The dark horse carriage is a motif often used by him. It also appears in a painting very similar to ours, formerly in the Gallert' Matthiesen in Berlin (photo RKD). Cornelis Beelt was born much earlier than previously thought. Today the date of his birth is still given as 1640. Evidence for the new date is found in the inventory catalogue of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem for which Irene van Thiel Stromann contributed the biographies. She believes the date of birth to be 1610/15 after having found documents of Beelt's marriage in Haarlem on 30 March 1630. In 1661 he became a member of the St. Luke´s Guild in Haarlem. His date of death is also uncertain, and is best to determine this by the late oeuvre and therefore should be given as being between 1664 and 1684 (Dr. Gerlinde de Beer).