Philip van Dyck (1680-1752)

The Property of the EARL OF KINTORE

細節

Philip van Dyck (1680-1752)

A group Portrait of Jan Albert Sighterman, his son Jan Albert and a Steward: the farmer three-quarter length in a blue velvet coat, a query satin waistcoat trimmed with gold braid and a white stock, the latter half length in a red velvet coat and white stock, holding documents, a dog beside them, by a blue draped curtain, the sea seen beyond

inscribed on the dog's collar 'Sighter...'
in a ....frame
58½ x 46cm. (148.5 x 117cm.)

來源

Commissioned by the sitter and thence by family descent

拍品專文

Jan Albert Sighterman was born in Groningen on 23 September 1692 and he died there on 15 January 1764. His daughter Christina Elizabeth married Anthony Adrian Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore and 8th Baron Falconer. His son Jan Albert was born at Cassembara on 17 September 1733. He joined the Army in the service of Saxony; he died unmarried in 1750.

This picture was painted in 1745, when the father was 53 and the son 12.