This view of a town by a river once belonged to the important collector and art historian Jules Lenglart (1824-1901) from Lille. At the time of his ownership, it was attributed to Jan van Goyen and was included as a work by this artist in Hofstede de Groot's “Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts”. However, it was later attributed to the Leiden based landscape painter Maerten Fransz. van der Hulst by Hans-Ulrich Beck. Dimensions 39.5 x 56 cm Artist or Maker Maerten Fransz. van der Hulst Medium Oil on panel Literature Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, 10 vols., Esslingen and Paris, 1910-28, vol. 8, Esslingen and Paris 1923, p. 177, no. 705 (as: Jan van Goyen). - Hans-Ulrich Beck: Über Maerten Fransz. van der Hulft, in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23, 1972, p. 247-259, p. 257, no. 11. - Hans-Ulrich Beck: Künstler um Jan van Goyen. Maler und Zeichner, Doornspijk 1991, p. 175, no. 468. Provenance Jules Lenglart, Lille. - Auctioned in “Collection de feu M. Jules Lenglart de Lille”, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10.03.1902, no. 54 (as: Jan van Goyen). - Auctioned in Amsterdam, 13.07.1926, lot 666 (as: Jan van Goyen, illus.). - Auctioned in Lempertz auction 630, Cologne, 23.06.1988, lot 68. - Private collection, Westphalia. Notes VAT: Margin scheme