A view of a Alkmaar, with the `Accijnstoren' on the Bierkade and the mill 'de Bul', carriages on the bridges and towns folk at their daily activities

We are grateful to Charles Dumas for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph, and to Laurens Schoemaker of the RKD, The Hague, for their kind help in cataloguing this lot. Seen from the Verdronkenoord, Keun depicted the Accijnstoren, built in 1622 in the typical Dutch Renaissance style, and behind it the mill `de Bul’, with the bridge in the foreground uniting the Bierkade and the Limmerhoek. The double draw bridge in the background, which no longer exists, is the so-called Hoge Brug. Dumas has kindly pointed out the stylistic similarities with Keun’s signed view of the Amsterdam Houtmarkt in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv.nr.SK-A-3228), in the depiction of the brick work, the lady to the right and horses.