Frans Decker (1684-1751)

Portrait of Pieter Merkman (1699-1760), small half length in a feigned stone window - en grisaille

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Frans Decker (1684-1751)
Portrait of Pieter Merkman (1699-1760), small half length in a feigned stone window - en grisaille
indistinctly signed and dated and inscribed on the feigned window sill Pieter Merkman/Natus MDCXCIX Pictus MDCCXL../FDec...
oil on canvas laid down on board
19 x 14.2 cm

Provenance

Anon. Sale, R.W.P. de Vries Amsterdam, 16/7 January 1924, lot 1085

Lot Essay

The sitter, son of Pieter Merkman and Anna Lepel, was a man of letters; by profession he was a weaver of ribbons in Haarlem

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