Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (1597-1662)

Details

Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (1597-1662)

Portrait of a Lady, half length, in a black dress and a millstone ruff and holding gloves

signed and dated 'Jan vSpronck an° 1640:' (vS in monogram) and
inscribed with a coat-of-arms

33 x 27¼in. (84 x 69.3cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 19 June 1935, lot 87
C. H. Oliverson, Earlsham Hall, Bungay, Suffolk; (+) Christie's, 28 Jan. 1944, lot 121 (640gns. to Koetser)
with Koetser, London (advertized in The Burlington Magazine, June 1944) Mrs. D. Vines; Christie's, 28 July 1961, lot 50 (420gns. to Betts)
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 28 June 1974, lot 101

Literature

R. E. O. Ekkart, Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, 15 Sept.-25 Nov. 1979, pp.43 and 79, no.20, illustrated p.154

Lot Essay

The sitter has not been identified, although a similar coat-of-arms, in which the stars are described as five-pointed, was used in the seventeenth century by the D'Assonville, Baert and De Clercq families of Haarlem

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