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'World famous outside the Netherlands'. Top piece of 'veduta painting' to Amersfoort

Amersfoort's Museum Flehite has purchased the gouache (a painting made with opaque watercolour) View of Amersfoort by 17th-century painter Caspar van Wittel at Christie's in London. The purchase price for this Amersfoort masterpiece was over 200,000 euros including taxes.

Van Wittel was born in Amersfoort and, after an apprenticeship with Withoos, left for Italy at the age of 21, where, as Gaspare Vanvitelli, he made a name for himself as a painter of cityscapes. He is credited in Ital...

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Amersfoort's Museum Flehite has purchased the gouache (a painting made with opaque watercolour) View of Amersfoort by 17th-century painter Caspar van Wittel at Christie's in London. The purchase price for this Amersfoort masterpiece was over 200,000 euros including taxes.

Van Wittel was born in Amersfoort and, after an apprenticeship with Withoos, left for Italy at the age of 21, where, as Gaspare Vanvitelli, he made a name for himself as a painter of cityscapes. He is credited in Ital...

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