A cartouche surrounded by garlands of roses, thistle, holly and other flowers and butterflies with a later portrait of a gentleman, seated, bust-length, in a black cloak with a lace collar

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Daniel Seghers (Antwerp 1590-1661)
A cartouche surrounded by garlands of roses, thistle, holly and other flowers and butterflies with a later portrait of a gentleman, seated, bust-length, in a black cloak with a lace collar
signed and dated 'Daniel. Seghers. Soc.ts Jes A. 1640' (lower right)
oil on panel
39½ x 26¼ in. (100.4 x 66.6 cm.)

Provenance

Ladislaus Bloch, Vienna; sale, Frederick Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14 November 1905, lot 63.

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Please note the estimate should read £40,000-60,000 and not as it states in the catalogue

Lot Essay

Daniel Seghers was born in Antwerp in 1590. After his father's death, he moved with his mother to Holland where he was brought up in the Protestant faith. He returned to Antwerp in 1610 and became a pupil of Jan Brueghel the Elder, who converted him to Catholicism. Seghers enrolled in the Antwerp guild in 1611 and in 1614 was admitted to the Jesuit order as a novice. He took his final vows as a lay brother in 1625 and was sent to the Order in Rome until 1627. After his return to the Netherlands, he remained in Antwerp until his death in 1661. His only documented pupil was Jan Philips van Thielen.

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