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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jan Van Kessel, A windmill beside a canal on the ramparts of Amsterdam near the Prinsengracht.

Jan Van Kessel 1641-1680

A windmill beside a canal on the ramparts of Amsterdam near the Prinsengracht.
oil on canvas
193⁄4 x 231⁄4 in. (50 x 59cm.)
bears signature: Mey..dt Hobb.ma
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Gallery Notes, Summer 2026 Looking into the entrance of a canal, a windmill overlooks a town wall and a stand of trees beside a wooden bridge. On the near side of the canal, a man in a red doublet appears to be bleaching linen pegged out in rows. On the opposite bank, below the windmill, a man and woman are making their way to the bridge past some wooden palisades beyond which a row of roofs and chimneys recede into the distance. Ducks meander by a small sluice in the foreground and behind them are two nesting baskets with a plank across the top. A stone and wooden wall extends across the foreground with the sloped roof of an outhouse positioned above the canal. Two sawn tree trunks are propped against the wall and above the shrubs and tree to the near right is a distinctive gable end with a larger property, or possibly a church steeple, abutting the house... read more in Gallery Notes Summer 2026
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