Current knowledge
Royal Collection 402882
Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger
The Liberation of St Peter
Current measurements:
61.2cm x 106.8cm
The identification with the entry in the Sale Inventory is only a possibility. There are several perspectives by or after Steenwyck in the Royal Collection today and several references in the inventories. For all the Steenwyck candidates without firm matches see van der Doort WS 87, no 57 and also Sale inventory WS 315, no 262, WS 192, no 100, WS 268, no 185, WS 323, no 21, WS 307, no 144, WS 259, no 52, 54, 55, WS 315, no 266, WS 269, no 212, WS 63, no 58, WS 204, no 303 and WS 416, no 9 (including this record)
Van der Doort 1639
Liberation of St Peter, 'night perspective of St Peter'
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):