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Portrait of a nobleman, standing small three-quarter length on a terrace, wearing armour, his right hand leaning on a glove on a draped pedestal beside him, his feathered helmet nearby, his left hand pointing to a landscape beyond
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Jan Verkolje I (1650-1693)
Portrait of a nobleman, standing small three-quarter length on a terrace, wearing armour, his right hand leaning on a glove on a draped pedestal beside him, his feathered helmet nearby, his left hand pointing to a landscape beyond
signed (strengthened) and dated lower right J. Verkolje/1683
oil on canvas
58.9 x 49.9 cm
Portrait of a nobleman, standing small three-quarter length on a terrace, wearing armour, his right hand leaning on a glove on a draped pedestal beside him, his feathered helmet nearby, his left hand pointing to a landscape beyond
signed (strengthened) and dated lower right J. Verkolje/1683
oil on canvas
58.9 x 49.9 cm
Provenance
E.J. Loerincz, Johannesburg
Exhibited
Capetown, J. van Riebeek Memorial Exhibition, 1952