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Lot Essay
The sitters in the present portrait have not been identified. They certainly must have belonged to the Haarlem intelligentia, who frequently sat for Hendriks from 1800 onwards and who all with him had supported the Patriot movement at the end of the 18th Century.
The style is informal in contrast to that of the previous generation. See for this lot 724. Altough the family in the present lot is still depicted according to the rules of the conversation piece the mood is more relaxed. This informal style was praized by Jan van Walr, in his Kunst van Nabootzing der Gebaarden as from an artist "die door 't keurig fiks penseel, niet slechts der menschen wezenstrekken maar ook, in menig tafereel, de werking van de ziel wist op 't gelaat te ontdekken".
As so many artists in his day, Hendriks was not only active as a painter. In 1785 he was appointed Director of the Teylers Fundatie in his native city and responsible for the collections. He made numerous copies after pictures in this collection.
J. Knoef (1896-1948), former owner of the present lot, was a self-taught art historian. His interest was Dutch painting from the 18th and 19th Century, in wich field numerous pioneering researches were carried out and published in magazines such as Elsevier. His two volumes Tussen Rococo en Romantiek, published in 1943 and Van Romantiek tot Realisme, from 1947, are still standard works for the period.
The style is informal in contrast to that of the previous generation. See for this lot 724. Altough the family in the present lot is still depicted according to the rules of the conversation piece the mood is more relaxed. This informal style was praized by Jan van Walr, in his Kunst van Nabootzing der Gebaarden as from an artist "die door 't keurig fiks penseel, niet slechts der menschen wezenstrekken maar ook, in menig tafereel, de werking van de ziel wist op 't gelaat te ontdekken".
As so many artists in his day, Hendriks was not only active as a painter. In 1785 he was appointed Director of the Teylers Fundatie in his native city and responsible for the collections. He made numerous copies after pictures in this collection.
J. Knoef (1896-1948), former owner of the present lot, was a self-taught art historian. His interest was Dutch painting from the 18th and 19th Century, in wich field numerous pioneering researches were carried out and published in magazines such as Elsevier. His two volumes Tussen Rococo en Romantiek, published in 1943 and Van Romantiek tot Realisme, from 1947, are still standard works for the period.