Portrait of Juliaan van Groenewegen (1671-1739), three-quarter-length, seated in an ochre costume, a chemise with a white jabot and a red wrap, a country house in the background; and Portrait of Johanna van Groenewegen-Staal (1684-1736), three-quarter-length, seated in a blue dress and yellow wrap, a mountainous river landscape with a castle beyond

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Thomas van der Wilt (Piershil 1659-1733 Delft)
Portrait of Juliaan van Groenewegen (1671-1739), three-quarter-length, seated in an ochre costume, a chemise with a white jabot and a red wrap, a country house in the background; and Portrait of Johanna van Groenewegen-Staal (1684-1736), three-quarter-length, seated in a blue dress and yellow wrap, a mountainous river landscape with a castle beyond
the first signed and dated 'T. vandr: wilt. 1715.' (lower left); the second signed 'T. vandr: wilt.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
61.2 x 52.2 cm.
both inscribed with coats-of-arms of the family (upper left and lower right); and both with old inventory numbers '103' and '104' together with brush marks of a bear on the reverse.
a pair (2)

Provenance

In the family of the present owners since the early 18th century.

Literature

E.A. van Berenstijn, Genealogie van het geslacht van Beresteyn, The Hague, 1954, I, p. 65, nos. 220-1.

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Lot Essay

Period copies after the present compositions are in the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (see Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Old Master Paintings, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Zwolle, 1992, p. 458, C 672 and C674; p. 319, no. 2855, illustrated).

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