Lot Essay
The present work relates to another portrait of van Raesfelt of circa 1668 formerly in the collection of D. Webb, Donyland House, near Colchester (current whereabouts unknown); see M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting, Ghent, 2002, no. 74, p. 221, fig. 74.