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The sitters were both born in Utrecht and married in 1827
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Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837)
Portrait of Jacobus Catharinus de Joncheere (1801-1858), half length, wearing black costume, yellow waistcoat and white chemise; and Portrait of Helena Cornelia Luberta de Joncheere, née van Beusechem, Vrouwe van Harmelen (1807-1886), seated half length, wearing a silk brown-grey dress, scarf and garnet necklace
with inscriptions identifying the sitters on the reverse of the relined canvases, oil on canvas
73.4 x 62 cm and 72.8 x 61.8 cm
a pair (2)
Portrait of Jacobus Catharinus de Joncheere (1801-1858), half length, wearing black costume, yellow waistcoat and white chemise; and Portrait of Helena Cornelia Luberta de Joncheere, née van Beusechem, Vrouwe van Harmelen (1807-1886), seated half length, wearing a silk brown-grey dress, scarf and garnet necklace
with inscriptions identifying the sitters on the reverse of the relined canvases, oil on canvas
73.4 x 62 cm and 72.8 x 61.8 cm
a pair (2)
Literature
A.C.A.W. van der Feltz, Charles Howard Hodges, 1982, p. 181, nos. 288 and 289, with ill. p. 180, where dated to circa 1830