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Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Arnold Boonen
Portrait of a gentleman, seated three-quarter length; Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter length
Lot Closed
March 24, 03:59 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Arnold Boonen
Dordrecht 1669 - 1729 Amsterdam
Portrait of a gentleman, seated three-quarter length; Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter length
the former indistinctly dated centre right: Ao 1694; the latter indistinctly signed upper right: A Boonen
a pair, both oil on canvas
unframed, each: 42.5 x 34 cm.; 16 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.
framed, each: 52.5 x 44 cm.; 20 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.
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Born in Dordrecht, Arnold Boonen began his career as a genre painter. The first of the present pair of works is dated 1694, and the portraits were most probably painted during a trip to Germany, when Boonen spent at least four months at the court of Darmstadt. During this time, his depictions of German patricians received such great acclaim that he resolved only to focus on portrait paintings. In 1696 he returned to Holland and established himself in Amsterdam, where he became a sought-after portraitist to some of the most renowned personalities of his time.