Mattheus Verheijden (1700-1776)

Portrait of Joan van Schuylenburch (1675-1735), seated small three quarter length on a draped terrace, wearing a blue lined yellow jacket, lace shirt, red silk wrap and a wig, a formal garden beyond; and Portrait of Elisabeth van Schuylenburch, née Hochepied (1678-1708), seated small three quarter length on a terrace by a fountain, wearing a red silk dress, lace chemise, and light green silk wrap, a formal garden beyond

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Mattheus Verheijden (1700-1776)
Portrait of Joan van Schuylenburch (1675-1735), seated small three quarter length on a draped terrace, wearing a blue lined yellow jacket, lace shirt, red silk wrap and a wig, a formal garden beyond; and Portrait of Elisabeth van Schuylenburch, née Hochepied (1678-1708), seated small three quarter length on a terrace by a fountain, wearing a red silk dress, lace chemise, and light green silk wrap, a formal garden beyond
both inscribed with the sitters' coats-of-arms, in the first as a feigned sculpted ornament in the base of the table lower left; in the second as a feigned sculpted ornament on the base of the fountain lower right; both with signatures and inscriptions on the reverse of the relined canvases
oil on canvas
56.1 x 45.4 cm and smaller (2)

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, 1903/5, no.3531/2 and no.7092.

Lot Essay

Joan van Schuylenburgh, son of Willem van Schuylenburgh, heer van Drakenburg and Antoinetta van der Wielen, was secretary to King Stadholder Willem III. He married Elisabeth Hochepied, daughter of Daniel Hochepied and Susanna van Capelle, in 1697. He became mayor of Haarlem in 1731 and a member of the board of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam in 1721.

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