Bernart Vollenhove (1633-1694)

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Bernart Vollenhove (1633-1694)

Portrait of a Gentleman, aged 51, seated small full length before a draped curtain in his study, wearing a blue silk dressing gown, books, a celestial globe and an ink stand on a draped table nearby

signed, inscribed with the age of the sitter and dated lower left on a sheet of paper B.Vollenhove/fecit/1679/Ao.AE(linked)tat./LI., oil on canvas
78.2 x 61.6 cm

Provenance

with D. Katz, Dieren

Literature

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard ter Borch, 1959, II, p. 290, pl. XXVIII, fig. 1

Lot Essay

As pointed out by Gudlaugsson, loc.cit., the present lot betrays the influence of Terborch, who was active in Zwolle. Vollenhove, after an apprenticeship in Amsterdam, became Mayor of Kampen in 1677, which is close to Zwolle

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