Portrait of Bocke Jochems Hoppers (b. 1587), three-quarter-length, in a black costume with lace collar and cuffs, standing beside a green draped table, a pocket watch in his left hand; and Portrait of Eritia Aukje Hoppers, née De Blocq (b. 1590), three-quarter-length, in a black dress with a molensteenkraag and lace headdress, an embroidered silk glove in her left hand

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(2) Attributed to Jan de Salle (active in Leeuwarden c. 1599-1626)
Portrait of Bocke Jochems Hoppers (b. 1587), three-quarter-length, in a black costume with lace collar and cuffs, standing beside a green draped table, a pocket watch in his left hand; and Portrait of Eritia Aukje Hoppers, née De Blocq (b. 1590), three-quarter-length, in a black dress with a molensteenkraag and lace headdress, an embroidered silk glove in her left hand
both inscribed with the sitters' age and dated: the first 'ÆTAT.35 A°.1622' (upper right); the second 'ÆTAT.32 A°.1622' (upper left); both inscribed with the sitters' coats-of-arms (upper right and upper left)
oil on panel
104 x 80.8 cm.
both with labels identifying the sitters (on reverse)
a pair (2)

Provenance

W. Baron van Heeckeren van Kell, The Hague, 1897.
with Katz, Dieren, 1933.
Mrs. L. Hedeman-Wolff, Almelo; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 21 March 1950, lot 55, as E. Pickenoy.

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Amsterdam, 1897, I, pp. 87 and 449, nos. 736 and 3738.
A. Wassenbergh, De portretkunst in Friesland in de zeventiende eeuw, Lochem, 1967, pp. 22, nos. 8 and 9, figs. 39 and 40, as Jan de Salle.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Bocke Jochems (Bocatius) Hoppers was a clerk at the court of Friesland. He married Eritia Aukje, daughter of Daniel de Blocq, in 1612 in Leeuwarden. The pair of portraits were possibly commissioned in honour of their tenth anniversary.

A small group of sixteen unsigned portraits, formerly attributed to Pieter Feddes van Harlingen (1586-1623), are today considered to be the work of the The Hague born Jan de Salle (Wassenbergh, op. cit., p. 23). All sitters in the portraits can be identified as citizens of high standing in Leeuwarden. Examples can be found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede and the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.

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