Boekhart (first half 18th Century)

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Boekhart (first half 18th Century)

Portrait of Adriaan Wittert (1692-1748), half length, wearing a green silk costume, a yellow silk waistcoat and a red silk wrap; and a Portrait of Theodora Cornelia Elisabeth Wittert, née Schade van Westrum van Dompselaer (1710-1782), seated half length, wearing a blue embroidered silk dress and a rose silk wrap, by a draped curtain

oil on canvas, ovals
90.5 x 70.5 and 89 x 70 cm
a pair (2)

Provenance

By descent to Jhr.Mr A.Th.J. Schade van Westrum, Bois-le-Duc, thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, II, 1905, nos. 9213/1 and 6809
U. Thieme and H. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, IV, 1916, p. 198

Lot Essay

Adriaan Wittert, Heer van Hoogland, Emiclaer and Schonauwen, married Theodora Cornelia Elisabeth Schade van Westrum, daughter of Arnold Franciscus Schade van Westrum and Catharina Maria de Wijs, in 1737 after the death of his first wife Maria Gerarda van Wedenbrugge.

The identity of the artist Boekhart remains unknown. It was Moes followed by Thieme Becker who thus attributed these portraits

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