River landscape with castle and ferry / Castle on the Scheldt / Mighty rock castle

signed and dated.
‘In the centre on the far bank; a bridge provides access from the right. The right bank is steep and rises from the left background from the plain to the right. On the far right, on the heights, a church tower; on the left in the background a village on the river. A man with two horses and a dog on a promontory in front left; a large rowing boat is being loaded with sacks; a barge with four people behind it on the right. Other boats in the middle of the river or near the right bank. Labelled on a large rowing boat (left foreground): VG 1652.’ (Beck)
Arthur Kay Collection, Glasgow; Oskar Huldschinsky Collection, Berlin; Feist Collection, Berlin; Dr [Gerd?] Lanz, Amsterdam, 1941 (after May) (through Galerie Fischer and Galerie Moos); M. Schultheß, Basel, 1942; Nathan Katz, Basel; Auction Succession N[athan] K[atz], Paris, 1951; Collection Dr H. A. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, 1952; S. Nystadt, The Hague, 1953; Mathiesen, London 1956; Douwes Bros, Amsterdam, 1956; private collection, Germany, Saar region, 1956;
2014 amicable agreement