, black chalk and grey wash on thick laid (watermak of encircled anchor beneath star), dark grey wash frame border lines, few discreet paper repairs to old folds and edges, signed and partially inscribed in pen & ink to verso 'Bemel del: No[ribergae]', 440 665 mm (17.25 x 26.25 ins), gilt frame, glazedQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 14 November 1988, lot 108; Private Collection, Herefordshire, UK. Willem van Bemmel was the younger brother of landscape painter Jacob Gerritsz van Bemmel (1628-1673), of Utrecht. Both studied under Herman Saftleven between 1645 and 1647. Willem also travelled to Italy, spending the years 1647-1649 in Venice, and 1649-1653 in Rome. He was in Kassel between 1656 and 1662, and in 1662 moved to Augsburg before settling in Nuremberg, where he married. He is best known for his Italianate landscapes and is the originator of the German von Bemmel family of painters of Nuremberg.