DIRCK VAN DER LISSE | Portrait of a gentleman; and Portrait of a lady

Willem M.J. Russell, Amsterdam;

F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria, by 1981;

His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 16 November 1993, lot 37 (as Attributed to Lundens), where acquired.

L.J. Bol and G. Keyes, Netherlandish Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt, London 1981, p. 254, cat. no. 110, both reproduced (as Dirck van der Lisse?); 

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, pp. 94-95, cat. nos 33 and 34, both reproduced in colour (as attributed to Gerrit Lundens);

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 123, cat. nos 132 and 133, reproduced in colour (as Gerrit Lundens).

This high-quality pair of portraits was formerly attributed to Gerrit Lundens, due to S.J. Gudlaugsson's reading of the monogram as 'GL', when the works appeared in Frans C. Butôt's posthumous sale in 1993. The works are, however, convincingly attributable to Dirck van der Lisse, whose monogram reads 'DVL', and with whose small oval portraits on copper in the Royal Collection (also signed 'DVL'),¹ and the Fondation Custodia, Paris,² they may be favourably compared.

1 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/273398

2 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/66885 and https://rkd.nl/explore/images/66889