Balthasar Denner (1685-1749)

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Balthasar Denner (1685-1749)

Portrait of Olivier van Riel (1707-1772), half length, wearing a yellow embroidered red waistcoat and burgundy overcoat, lace cravat and wig

with the name of the sitter on a label on the stretcher, oil on canvas
76.7 x 63.5 cm
Provenance
See lot 80

Lot Essay

The sitter, son of Willem van Riel and Cornelia Haesbroek, was member of the Council of Rotterdam and a maritime lawyer. He married Johanna van Rijckevorsel in 1742

The attribution is based on comparison with the portrait of a gentleman, said to be Cornelis Troost, signed and dated 1737, in the Rijksmuseum (see J.W. Niemeijer, Denner en Van der Smissen, twee hanze schilders in Holland, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, XXI, 1970, pp. 199/224, p. 208, fig. 10). As Niemeijer has pointed out, the latter portrait was executed during the fourth journey of Denner to the Netherlands from 1736-1740. Therefore the present lot falls also within this period

The attribution has been kindly confirmed by Dr J.W. Niemeijer after seeing the original (oral information)

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