B. Luyten (active 1776)

Portrait of Isaac Brungné du Buisson (+1809), aged 16, standing small three-quarter length by a table before a curtain, wearing a dark purple costume and blue waistcoat, his right hand resting on a volume of Rossini's Antiqua Romana; and Portrait of Johanna Elisabeth Brungné du Buisson (1737-1806), aged 8, standing small three-quarter length on a balcony, wearing a white dress with blue wrap, holding flowers and a fan

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B. Luyten (active 1776)
Portrait of Isaac Brungné du Buisson (+1809), aged 16, standing small three-quarter length by a table before a curtain, wearing a dark purple costume and blue waistcoat, his right hand resting on a volume of Rossini's Antiqua Romana; and Portrait of Johanna Elisabeth Brungné du Buisson (1737-1806), aged 8, standing small three-quarter length on a balcony, wearing a white dress with blue wrap, holding flowers and a fan
the first indistinctly signed lower right B. Luyten fec..; the second indistinctly signed and dated centre right B. Luyten 1776, each inscribed with the name of the sitter, their ages and their coats- of-arms on the reverse of the unlined canvas
oil on unlined canvas
37.5 x 30 cm each a pair (2)

Provenance

from the sitters by descent to the Van Teylingen family
Anon. Sale, Hagels Enschede, 25 April 1994, lot 128

Lot Essay

The sitters were children of Simon du Buisson and Anna Jacoba Brungné from Middelburg. Isaac became lawyer in that city and married Johanna Susanne Becius; Johanna Elisabeth married Hendrik Becius in 1737 and again Melchior van Goens in 1781.
The artist is apparently unrecorded.

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