Attributed to Thomas Hendricksz. de Keyser Amsterdam (?) 1596/7 - 1667 Amsterdam

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 EUR

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Description

Thomas de Keyser
a portrait of a lady, standing full-length, wearing a black dress with lace collar and bonnet, holding gloves, near a table draped with a persian carpet
oil on panel, oval

Provenance

Lady Susannah Binch, Beaumont Hall, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex
By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 15 May 1953, lot 7 (as by Thomas de Keyser), for 140 Guineas to Cevat;
With Daan Cevat, London, from whom acquired for the present collection.

Catalogue Note

This portrait can be dated in the 1620’s. The gloves in the right hand of the lady, may refer to her marriage. It is therefore plausible that this painting once formed part of a pair of wedding portraits.