拍品专文
The artist was the of son Dionys van Nijmegen and the grandson of Elias (cfr. lot 154) and assisted his father on decorative schemes that made the family studio highly successful in Rotterdam from the beginning of the 18th century. Later, he turned to landscape painting. In the present work the mansion Honselaersdijk is depicted in the right background. The estate was bought by Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik in 1612. He demolished the former mansion and from the 1630s employed French architects and later Pieter Post to design a worthy house and garden. The stadtholders William II and William III stayed regularly at Honselaersdijk. In the first half of the 18th century the property devolved upon the Kings of Prussia by inheritance. In 1754 it was bought by the Orange-Nassau family from Frederick the Great in order to provide the future Prince William V with proper accomodation. He, however, never lived at Honselaersdijk. From 1758 it was inhabited by his sister Caroline, married to Charles Christian von Nassau-Weilberg. It was probably during their occupation of the palace Van Nijmegen painted the present landscape. The demolition of one of the key monuments of Dutch 17th century architecture began in 1815 (for the history of the mansion see T.Morren, Het Huis Honselaarsdijk, 1905 (reprint 1990).