Lot 4 · Old Master Pictures
A town on fire at night with villagers looting
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- Estimate
- £7,000–£10,000 hammer ≈ $11,445–$16,351
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master Pictures , London · 29 October 1999
- Record ID
- TB-2026-6488718
- Record
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Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel, A town on fire at night with villagers looting. Christie's, 29 Oct 1999, lot 4. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6488718.
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Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel, A town on fire at night with villagers looting. Christie's, 29 Oct 1999, lot 4. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6488718.
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From the same sale Old Master Pictures · Oct 1999
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travellers crossing a river | Pieter Wouwerman | £4,000–£6,000 | |
| A wooded landscape with women washing clothes by a lake, with herdsme… | Follower Of Karel Dujardin | £2,000–£4,000 | |
| A river landscape with travellers on a path and peasants boating , a … | Circle Of Theobald Michau | £4,000–£6,000 | |
| A fish on a terracotta platter with fruits, vegetables and a cheese ,… | Jacob Foppens Van Es | £20,000–£30,000 | |
| Two women and a man making music in an interior | Melchior Brassauw | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| A fox-tossing match with elegant company spectating | South German School, 16th Century | £10,000–£15,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | A riverside village with cottages on fire | $28,636 | Sotheby's, Jul 2022 | |
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Apr 2017 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | A fire in a village at night | Sotheby's, Dec 2003 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | A winter landscape with townsfolk on the ice | Christie's, Oct 2018 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | A kitchenmaid cleaning fish before a farmhouse | Christie's, Jan 2004 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | A view of Delft with the explosion of 1654 | Christie's, Nov 2013 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | a night scene with a fire in a village | Sotheby's, May 2012 | ||
| Egbert Lievensz. Van Der Poel | the fire in the nieuwe kerk, amsterdam, in 1645 | Sotheby's, Jan 2012 |
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.