Netherlandish School, 1551

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 EUR

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Description

a portrait of Knight Jacob Adriaensz. van Domburgh (died 1553), Lord of Aagtekerke and St Janskerke, Lord of Oostrum and Spraelandt (1532-1535), knight of jerusalem, half length, wearing a green velvet coat with fur collar, orange sleeves and a white chemise, and the cross of jerusalem, holding gloves in his left hand and a palm leaf in his right hand
charged with the coat-of-arms of the parents of the sitter upper left and right and charged with two unidentified coat-of-arms lower left and right, inscribed lower centre: Aldus . geconterfeit/anno . I.5.5.i. ende.Is.gestorve/wesende.etatis.sue.8Z.
oil on panel

Provenance

In the family of the present owner since the early 20th Century.

Catalogue Note

Jacob Adriaensz. van Domburgh, son of Adriaen van Domburgh and Christoffelina van Borsselen, citizen of Middelburg, was banished from the town in 1500 following an unknown crime. After paying a fine of 15 Flemish pounds (a huge sum in those days), he was allowed to return to Middelburg. He managed to rehabilitate in a short period: from 1501 to 1503 he was alderman, and became burgomaster in 1513. As a result of his impetuous and unlawful behaviour he, again, was forced to leave Middelburg in 1516 and moved to Upper-Gelre. Again he climbed up the social ladder, and soon was appointed stadtholder and bailiff on behalf of Duke Charles of Gelre. Reverting to his old turbulent habits, he fell out of favour with the Duke in 1535. No further public positions are recorded and he died in 1553 as a private citizen. His place of death is not recorded, but since his descendants (his daughter and her husband) lived in Geysteren in Limburg, where they are buried, it is a reasonable assumption that after his fall from favour he remained in the Overkwartier Gelre in the modern Province of Limburg, and in any event he certainly did not return to Middelburg. Though by no means certain, it is likely therefore that this portrait was painted in Limburg, either in 1551, with part of the inscription added upon his death in 1553, or it was painted posthumously, recording an earlier portrait of 1551.

Jacob van Domburgh was married three times: to Dorothea Schenck van Nydeggen, Agnieta Ruychrock van de Werve and Elisabeth Schenck van Nydeggen.

We are grateful to Olivier Mertens for his help in cataloguing this lot.