Lambert Doomer (1622/3-1700)

Portrait of Elisabeth Pruys van Oswaert (?-1683), half length, wearing a light blue brocade dress with lace collar and red bows, pearl neckless and earrings

Details

Lambert Doomer (1622/3-1700)
Portrait of Elisabeth Pruys van Oswaert (?-1683), half length, wearing a light blue brocade dress with lace collar and red bows, pearl neckless and earrings
with signature, the date and with inscription DOOMER/1648 Elisabeth/Pruijs van Oswaert on the reverse of the relined canvas
oil on canvas
65.3 x 57.2 cm

Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, II, 1905, no.6088/1.
U. Thieme und F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Kýnstler, etc., IX, 1913, p.460/1.
W. Schulz, Lambert Doomer, Leben und Werke, 1972, II, p.451, no.G16 W. Schulz, 'Lambert Doomer als Maler', Oud Holland, 92, 1978, p.72, p.95, no.III, ill.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandtschýler, 1983, I, p.468, no.229, ill.

Exhibited

Utrecht, Kunstliefde, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst, 1894, no.285.

Lot Essay

The sitter married Pieter van Heemskerck in 1663. She was the daughter of Dirk Pruys van Oswaert, lawyer to the East India Company in Amsterdam, and Hilgonda Reiniersdr. van Heemskerck. As suggested by Schulz, op.cit., 1972, the present portrait may have formed a pendant with the portrait of Pieter van Heemskerck by Jan van Rossum, for which see next lot. Only three portraits of single sitters by the artist are known. A date of execution in 1648 as suggested by the inscription on the reverse, probably copied when the picture was relined, is confirmed by the style of the painting which shows the influence of Bartholomeus van der Helst's; another female portrait is of the same year (sold at the Delmonte Sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 7 May 1992, lot 124, ill.).

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