Dionys van Nijmegen (1705-1798)

The sitter, son of Nicolaas Frederik Boogaert and Isabella Cornelia Bael, became Mayor of the City of Rotterdam. He was married in 1732 to Ignatia Geertruida Timmers and then to Maria Winkelman Boey in 1734

To be compared with the self portrait in the Rijksmuseum (see J.W. Niemeijer, De Ateliernalatenschap van het Rotterdamse Schildersgeslacht Van Nijmegen, Bulletin van het Rijkmuseum, 1969, p. 85, fig. 34)
See illustration