Hendrik van Velthoven (1728-1770)

Portrait of Carel Wouter Visscher, seated at a table, holding a cane and a hat, wine caskets in a cellar beyond

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Hendrik van Velthoven (1728-1770)
Portrait of Carel Wouter Visscher, seated at a table, holding a cane and a hat, wine caskets in a cellar beyond
signed 'HENDR VAN VELTHOVEN' on the edge of the tablecloth, with inscription 'C: Troost.Ft' (recto); and inscribed 'M.C. Visscher Pensionaris der stad Amsterdam.' (verso)
black chalk, watercolour, pastel on blue paper heightened with white, framed
530 x 475 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale; Roos & Roos, Amsterdam, 10 December 1878, lot 162.
Anon. sale; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 15 June 1908, lot 585 (Nlg. 75).
Anon. sale; Bom & Sons, Amsterdam, 19 May 1925, lot 212.

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava..., Amsterdam, 1897/1905, no. 8535,1.
J.W. Niemeijer, Cornelis Troost 1696-1750, Assen, 1973, p. 408, rejecting the attribution to Troost.

Lot Essay

The inscription verso, that would seem to be contemporary, identifies the sitter as 'M.C. Visscher...'. Meester [Master] Carel Wouter Visscher (1734-1802) was born in Utrecht and became a lawyer in Amsterdam. He married Anna Anthonia van Muyden (1733-1769) in 1759, and was appointed an Amsterdam Pensionary in 1769, which he remained until 1787. The inscription attributing the present lot to Troost was probably added in the 19th Century.

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