BERNHARD VOLLENHOVE | Portrait of an elegantly-dress young lady, half-length, wearing a black dress

Mrs. Frans Lemker, Kampen, by 1887.

Liesborn, Museum Abtei Liesborn, on loan;

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 39.

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G.P. Rouffaer, 'Vier Kamper Schilders, III, Bernhard Vollenhove', in Oud Holland, vol. 5, 1887, p. 301;

B. Lymant, Niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1: Porträt, Liesborn 1985, p. 42, reproduced;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, pp. 150-51, cat. no. 57, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 57, cat. no. 39, reproduced in colour.

Vollenhove likely trained in the studio of Salomon Koninck around the year 1650, and by 1672 he had established himself as an important public figure in Kampen, holding position as Mayor of the town. Many portraits by him, the present included, descended in the families of private collectors in Kampen until at least the end of the 19th century.