Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

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Jan van Haensbergen

Portrait of a gentleman, probably a member of the Van Bredehoff family

Lot Closed

March 24, 03:02 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jan van Haensbergen

Utrecht 1642 - 1705 The Hague

Portrait of a gentleman, probably a member of the Van Bredehoff family


signed and dated lower centre: I.V.H. / 1695

oil on canvas, oval

unframed: 54.8 x 45.5 cm.; 21 1/2 x 17 7/8 in.

framed: 62 x 68 cm.; 24 3/8 x 26 3/4 in.

Mrs G.J.M. Huitema-van Bredehoff de Vicq, Egmond aan den Hoef and Buitenzorg (Indonesia), 1935, inv. no. 7444;
Anonymous sale, London, Phillips, 2 December 1997, lot 104;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 5 December 1998, lot 1051;
With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, by 2005;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Arts & Antiques Group (AAG), 13 October 2008, lot 63, where unsold; probably bought after the sale for the Wieg collection.
C.H. de Jonge, Centraal Museum, Utrecht: catalogus der schilderijen, Utrecht 1952, cat. no. 1952/125;
C.J. Matthijs, 'De portretten uit de families van Bredehoff en de Vicq', in Jaarboek Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, no. 37, 1983, p. 169, no. 28, reproduced.
On loan, Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 8 January 1935 - after 1952 (on loan from the collection of Mrs Huitema-van Bredehoff de Vicq).

This portrait was previously identified as Adriaan van Bredehoff, a wealthy politician and bailiff of Hoorn. It bears strong similarities with two other portraits by Van Haensbergen depicting members of the Van Bredehoff family, ancestors of the former owner: a Portrait possibly of Jacob Josias van Bredehoff (1677-1748), dated 1695,1 and a Portrait of François van Bredehoff (1648-1721), dated 1698.2Jan van Haensbergen studied in Utrecht under Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594/5-1667) and stayed there until he moved to The Hague in 1669. He was a prolific painter with a very long career. His portrait style was influenced by Caspar Netscher (1639-84).


This portrait was part of the collection of Mrs Huitema-van Bredehoff de Vicq. When she moved to Indonesia in the 1930s, she put her art collection on loan and display in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, until she returned in 1948.


1 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/146434

2 https://rkd.nl/explore/images/194234