‘Precursor to golf’: Dutch museums buy earliest known painting of ‘colf’ for nearly £10m
A painting believed to be the earliest known depiction of the game of ‘colf’ – a forerunner of golf played on frozen water in the Netherlands – has been bought jointly by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and The Mauritshuis in The Hague.
Colf Players on the Ice, painted in c.1625 by Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), had previously been on …