Lot Essay
Philip Otto van Coeverden was Colonel of the Infantry. In 1667 he married Anna Sophia van der Capellen, who was a daughter of Alexander van der Capellen and Emilia van Zuylen van Nijevelt (see lot ...)
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE
IR E.A. BARON VAN DER CAPELLEN, ZUTPHEN
C. Kelder (end of 17th Century)
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C. Kelder (end of 17th Century)
Portrait of Jonkheer Philip Otto van Coeverden (died 1690), standing small full length in a landscape, wearing armour and a wig, holding a baton, his helmet and sash on a stone nearby; and Portrait of his wife Anna Sophia Frisia van Coeverden, née van der Capellen, Vrouwe van Rijsselt (1639-1696), seated small full length, on a balcony by a draped column, wearing an ochre dress with red silk wrap, her right arm leaning on a sculpted pedestal
both signed lower left C:Kelder:, both with inscription identifying the sitter on the reverse, oil on unlined canvas
70.5 x 55 cm
a pair (2)
Portrait of Jonkheer Philip Otto van Coeverden (died 1690), standing small full length in a landscape, wearing armour and a wig, holding a baton, his helmet and sash on a stone nearby; and Portrait of his wife Anna Sophia Frisia van Coeverden, née van der Capellen, Vrouwe van Rijsselt (1639-1696), seated small full length, on a balcony by a draped column, wearing an ochre dress with red silk wrap, her right arm leaning on a sculpted pedestal
both signed lower left C:Kelder:, both with inscription identifying the sitter on the reverse, oil on unlined canvas
70.5 x 55 cm
a pair (2)
Literature
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, I, 1897, nos 1632 and 1472, as by an unknown hand