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- Estimate
- £800,000–£1,200,000 hammer ≈ $1,015,720–$1,523,581
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction, London · 5 July 2023
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5137243
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Jan Van De Cappelle, A calm sea. Sotheby's, 5 Jul 2023, lot 26. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5137243.
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Jan Van De Cappelle, A calm sea. Sotheby's, 5 Jul 2023, lot 26. bought in (did not sell). TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5137243.
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From the same sale Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction · Jul 2023
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Visit to the Farm | Brueghel The Younger, Pieter | £200,000–£300,000 | |
| Saint Sebastian tended by two angels | Sir Peter Paul Rubens | £4,000,000–£6,000,000 | |
| London, a view from the River Thames, with St Paul's Cathedral | Antonio Joli | £200,000–£300,000 | |
| Study for ‘Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow’ | John Constable | £300,000–£400,000 | |
| Venice, a view of the Piazzetta with the southwest corner of the Doge… | Giovanni Antonio Canal, Called Canaletto | £3,000,000–£4,000,000 | |
| Portrait of Katherine Parr (1512–1548), Queen of England and Ireland | 'master John' | £600,000–£800,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Van De Cappelle | A winter landscape with skaters and kolf players on a frozen | $1,240,909 | Christie's, Dec 2001 | |
| Jan Van De Cappelle | Shipping Scene on a Calm Sea with a Jetty at Left | Sotheby's, Feb 2026 | ||
| Jan Van De Cappelle | A Calm Sea | Sotheby's, May 2024 | ||
| Michele Marieschi | Venice, a stonemason's yard on the Grand Canal, with a view | Christie's, Dec 2024 | ||
| Jan Van De Cappelle | a calm sea | Sotheby's, Dec 2018 | ||
| Jan Van De Cappelle | Two smalschips and other shipping off a sandbank in a calm | Christie's, Dec 2003 | ||
| Claude Joseph Vernet | claude-joseph vernet | a mediterranean harbour scene at suns | Sotheby's, Dec 2019 | ||
| Sir Anthony Van Dyck | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Oct 2018 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.