Impressionist Rotterdam Harbor Oil Painting with Steamship & Tugboats by Evert Moll, 1920s, Framed

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A signed oil on canvas harbor view of Rotterdam by Evert Moll (1878–1955), the Dutch painter well known for his … Read more A signed oil on canvas harbor view of Rotterdam by Evert Moll (1878–1955), the Dutch painter well known for his pictures of the city’s port and the shipping on the Nieuwe Maas. It is Dutch Impressionism rooted in the Hague School, but looser and brighter.

The painting measures 40 × 60 cm (15.7 × 23.6 in) unframed and 61 × 81 cm (24 × 31.9 in) framed.

A large steamship fills the right side, with smoke from its funnel trailing back through the rigging. Tugboats and a sailing barge work the choppy water around it, and a heavily loaded barge crosses in front. The quays and rooftops run along a low horizon under a wide, cloud-filled sky. The brushwork is quick and broken, with flecks of unmixed orange, blue and green laid into the water.

The painting is undated. Moll painted his Rotterdam harbor scenes chiefly in the 1920s and 1930s, and the back supports a prewar date. The stretcher carries a label of the dealers Gebroeders Koch with their Rotterdam address on the Noordblaak, in the old city center destroyed in the bombing of May 1940. Moll is represented in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Signed lower left. It is presented in an ornate gilt frame with scrolling foliage, where the gilding has worn through to the red ground at the high points. This piece has an attribution mark,
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