Philip van Dyck (1680-1752)

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Philip van Dyck (1680-1752)

A group Portrait of Sybilla Volkera Sighterman with her Daughters: Sybilla Volkera three quarter length in a black velvet dress trimmed with embroidered brocade, and a silk wrap, her eldest daugher Sybilla Volkera, half length in an orange dress, and her youngest daughter Christina Elizabeth, half length in a yellow dress holding flowers, by a draped curtain, a classical arch and statuary beyond

in a .... frame
58½ x 46in. (148.5 x 117cm.)

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter's husband and thence by family descent

Lot Essay

Sybilla Volkera was born on 3 December 1699 and she died at Groningen on 17 March 1781. She married Jan Albert Sighterman of Groningen and their youngest daughter, Christina Elizabeth (b. 1738), married Anthony Adrian, 5th Earl of Kintore on 9 March 1766. She died on 26 March 1809.

This picture was painted in 1745 when Sybilla Volkera was 46, her eldest daughter Sybilla was 10, and Christiana Elizabeth, 7.

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