- 137
Jan de Baen
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Jan de Baen
- Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length, wearing black with a lace collar, a landscape beyond a draped curtain;Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, wearing a black dress with lace, and pearl earrings and necklace, a formal garden landscape beyond
- a pair, both oil on canvas laid on board
Provenance
Possibly commissioned by the ancestors of the Van Nispen family;
By family descent for at least several generations.
By family descent for at least several generations.
Catalogue Note
With Caspar Netscher, Jan de Baen was the leading portrait painter in The Hague after the deaths of Adriaen Hanneman and Jan Mijtens around 1670. Like them, he adapted the international court style of Van Dyck for a later 17th Century clientele. A comparable pair of three-quarter length portraits by De Baen dating from 1677 and portraying Salomon Dierquens and his wife Catharina Parmentier are in the Museum Meermann-Westreenianum, The Hague (see R. Ekkart, in E. Buijsen (ed.), Haagse Schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle 1998. p. 85, reproduced figs 5 & 6).