Lot Essay
Pieter Duvelaar was secretary to the province of Zeeland and a magistrate in Middelburg
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Jan Denens (before 1671)
Portrait of Pieter Duvelaar (1647-1703), seated, three quarter length in his study, wearing a brown dressing gown and holding a letter, books, documents and an hour-glass on a table beside him; and Portrait of Anna Duvelaar, née Velters, standing, three quarter length by a fountain in a garden, wearing a white silk dress, blue wrap and pearls
the first inscribed: L.P/M; the second signed: J.Denens
122 x 101.6 cm
a pair (2)
Portrait of Pieter Duvelaar (1647-1703), seated, three quarter length in his study, wearing a brown dressing gown and holding a letter, books, documents and an hour-glass on a table beside him; and Portrait of Anna Duvelaar, née Velters, standing, three quarter length by a fountain in a garden, wearing a white silk dress, blue wrap and pearls
the first inscribed: L.P/M; the second signed: J.Denens
122 x 101.6 cm
a pair (2)
Provenance
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; Sale, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 144