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Lot 11
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Ludolf Backhuysen

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ludolf Backhuysen
  • A PORTRAIT OF JAN VAN BROECKHUIZEN (1649-1707)
  • signed lower left with initials on the parapet: LB
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Jan van Broeckhuizen, the sitter;
By whom bequeathed to Pieter Burman the Elder (1668-1741), Utrecht, in 1707;
By descent to Pieter Burman the Younger (1713-1778), Amsterdam;
His deceased sale, Amsterdam, Luchtmans, 16 October 1779, where acquired by Jan Ekels;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 December 1982, lot 137 where acquired by the late husband of the present owner.

Literature

J. van Broeckhuizen, Gedichten, 1712, p. 54;
E. W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, vol. I, 1897, no. 1136, 1;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., Vol. VII, London 1923, no. 53;
G. de Beer, Ludolf Backhuysen.  Sein Leben und Werk, Zwolle 2002, pp. 26, 85 (and no. 236, p. 253).