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    • JAN STOLKER (AMSTERDAM 1724-1785 ROTTERDAM) - Portrait of a man, bust-length, before a curtain with a landscape beyond
      May. 23, 2024

      JAN STOLKER (AMSTERDAM 1724-1785 ROTTERDAM) - Portrait of a man, bust-length, before a curtain with a landscape beyond

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      JAN STOLKER (AMSTERDAM 1724-1785 ROTTERDAM) Portrait of a man, bust-length, before a curtain with a landscape beyond oil on silvered copper, oval 4 ¼ x 3 ½ in. (10.8 x 8.9 cm.)

      Christie's
    • Jan Stolker
      Apr. 28, 2024

      Jan Stolker

      Est: €3,600 - €7,200

      (1724 Amsterdam - 1785 Rotterdam) Paar Gemälde mit Bildnissen eines Jägers und eines Fischhändlers Gegenstücke. In virtuoser Feinmalerei hat Stolker die beiden, jeweils unter Bäumen ruhenden Figuren in unterschiedliche Landschaften komponiert: Der leicht untersetzte Fischhändler mittleren Alters sitzt mit zufriedenem Ausdruck neben Körben voll Fisch und Austern, lässt es sich bei Pfeifen- und Schnapsgenuss gut gehen, während sich dahinter eine hügelige Dünenlandschaft mit angelandeten Fischerbooten erstreckt. Im Gegensatz hierzu wird der neben seiner Beute sitzende alte Jäger in sinnierender Pose geschildert, hierzu korrespondieren die Jagdhunde vor einer weiten, ruhigen Landschaft. Die weit über übliche Genremalerei hinausgehende, individualisierende, subtile Charakterisierung der Figuren zeigt eindringlich die Meisterschaft Stolkers, der sich an der Leidener Feinmalerei und der Kunst des Goldenen Zeitalters geschult haben dürfte. Stolker lernte bei Jan Maurits Quinkhard in Amsterdam, arbeitete 1748-1756 in Den Haag, bevor er nach Rotterdam ging und zu den angesehenen Malern der dortigen Lukasgilde gehörte. Der Künstler schuf ein höchst vielseitiges Oeuvre, das außer Genrebildern u. a. Bildnisse, Landschaften, Grafiken, Miniaturen sowie Kopien nach Gemälden des 17. Jhs. umfasst. Öl/Mahagonitafel. Ein Gemälde sign.; 51,5 cm x 41,5 cm. Wohl Original-Rahmen (besch.). A pair of paintings depicting a fishmonger and a hunter. Oil on mahogany panel. One of them signed. Probably original frames (flaws).

      Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden
    • Jan Stolker, 1724-1785, Portrait of a man, oil on panel, dat ...
      Mar. 13, 2023

      Jan Stolker, 1724-1785, Portrait of a man, oil on panel, dat ...

      Est: €800 - €1,200

      Jan Stolker, 1724-1785, Portrait of a man, oil on panel, dated 1769, 21 x 15 cm.

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    • * Stolker (Jan, 1724-1785). Backgammon Players in an inn
      Oct. 13, 2021

      * Stolker (Jan, 1724-1785). Backgammon Players in an inn

      Est: £100 - £150

      * Stolker (Jan, 1724-1785). Backgammon Players in an inn, mezzotint after Jan Steen (circa 1625-1679), on laid paper, two or three short closed tears to right margin neatly repaired to verso, trimmed to plate margin, 282 x 370mm (111/8 x 141/2 ins), window mounted (with a typewritten label to mount, possibly by Christopher Mendez) Qty: (1)

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    • Stolker, Jan: Der amüsierte Leser
      Jun. 03, 2020

      Stolker, Jan: Der amüsierte Leser

      Est: €300 - €350

      [*] Der amüsierte Leser. Schabkunstblatt nach Adriaen van Ostade. 27,9 x 20,2 cm. Le Blanc 1. Ganz ausgezeichneter Druck mit gleichmäßig schmalem Rand um die markant zeichnende Plattenkante. Verso kleine Montierungsreste, vereinzelt unbedeutend fleckig, sonst tadellos. Aus der Sammlung Thomas Graf (Lugt 1092a). - Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

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    • JAN STOLKER | A three-quarter length portrait of the artist Heyman Dullaert, seated, smoking and holding a glass
      Jan. 30, 2019

      JAN STOLKER | A three-quarter length portrait of the artist Heyman Dullaert, seated, smoking and holding a glass

      Est: $3,000 - $4,000

      Watercolor, heightened with partially oxidized white, within brown ink framing lines; inscribed, upper left:  H. Dullaert / ad se jpse pinxt: / Aet. 40 Ao. 1676. and  verso, in brown ink:  H: Dullaert pinxt: 1676. / Hoog 8 1/2. Breet 7 duymen.

      Sotheby's
    • Attributed to Jan Stolker, (Dutch, 1724-1785), group of five oval portrait miniatures of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age masters, four...
      Jul. 22, 2017

      Attributed to Jan Stolker, (Dutch, 1724-1785), group of five oval portrait miniatures of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age masters, four...

      Est: $700 - $1,000

      Attributed to Jan Stolker (Dutch, 1724-1785) group of five oval portrait miniatures of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age masters, fourth quarter 18th century grisailles on copper unsigned, including portraits of Lucas Leyden, Gerard Honthorst, Jan Utrich Meyer, Cornelis van Poelenburgh and one other, the Leyden portrait after Durer's is dated 1525, the Honthorst and van Poelenburg are inscribed in Latin "Se Ipse: Pinxt" and "Se Ipse: Del", respectively, and all five are inscribed with sitters' names, dates and inventory numbers en verso, some of which are indecipherable due to adhesive residue from having been previously backed with paper. Presented in matching antique brass frames. each 4-1/8" x 3-3/8" Provenance: Private collection, Houston, Texas. Literature: Eijnden, R. van and A. van der Willigen. Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst. Amsterdam, 1816, II, pp. 183 and 185; Nagler, G.K. Neues Allgemeines Kunstler Lexicon. Leipzig, 1847, XVII, p. 398F. Notes: Jan Stolker, a prominent printmaker, painter, dealer and art collector, is best known for his copies of 17th-century Dutch artists. He studied under Jan Maurits Quinkhard, and was a member of the Confrerie Pictura and the Rotterdam Guild of Saint Luke. His series of grisaille portrait miniatures was influenced by his predecessors. Though usually credited to Arnoud van Halen, who painted in 1712 a series of portraits of Dutch poets, the inspiration equally came from Karel van Mander's 1604 Dutch version of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists that chronicled the biographies of 15th- and 16th-century Dutch artists and Cornelis de Bies' 1662 expanded compendium that included 17th-century Dutch artists. Two of the portraits offered here, those of Honthorst and van Poelenburgh, were copied after engravings published in de Bies' book, and Stolker owned copies of both texts at the time of his death, according to Appendix 3, "Excerpts from Dutch Book Sales Catalogues from the Estates of Painters (1667-1792)", published in M.J.N. Stols-Witlox book Historical Recipes for Preparatory Layers for Oil Paintings in Manuals… One hundred fifty-five grisaille miniatures, that resemble these in size and execution, were offered at the sale of the artist's studio in Rotterdam on March 27, 1786, and were identified by inked inventory numbers on their backs, as only one of the miniatures was signed "Stolker". The collection (cabinet) did not sell and remained with Stolker's descendants. In 1853, the collection was sold as part of the Frederik Mueller Collection in Amsterdam as lot 1781 for 800 flourins. The catalogue entry did not list the names of the portraits, but described them as a "Cabinet" with the "old high Dutch painters and paintings, in pleasing grayish color on oval round copper plates, high 4 inches, wide 3 inches, with many portrayals of painters and poets from prints". According to Michele N. Benisovich's "Notes sur Jan Stolker" (1946), the portraits were dispersed nearly a century later in the 1940s in New York City. A group of twenty sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, November 10, 1997 as lot 153 for $29,412, and another eight sold at Christie's New York, June 7, 2002 as lot 121 for $11,353. This group of five, according to extant art database results, is the largest number to be offered at auction since the aforementioned sales at Christie's. References: De Bies, Cornelius. Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const (The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting). Jan Meyssen: Antwerp, 1662; Stols-Witlox, M.J.N. Historical Recipes for Preparatory Layers for Oil Paintings in Manuals, Manuscripts and Handbooks in North West Europe, 1550-1900. Diss. University of Amsterdam, 2014. Web. 25 June 2017; Benisovich, Michel N. "Notes sur Jan Stolker (1724-1785)". Oud Holland. 61 (1946), pp. 185-196. Mueller, Frederik Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 portretten, van Nederlanders, en van buitenlanders, tot Nederland in betrekking staande… Amsterdam, 1853, pp. 37-38.

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    • Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt). Drawing, p
      Jun. 02, 2017

      Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt). Drawing, p

      Est: €300 - €500

      Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt). Drawing, pencil, pen and ink and grey wash, 22x15 cm., with "Mierevelt pinxt." and "J. Stolker del:" in black ink below the image and "aetatis 70 1617" in the image. - Marginal tear in left edge; foxed/ yellowed. = With a watermark showing "Patria Eiusque Libertate". Cf. M.J. van Mierevelt, Hollstein 28; FMP 3964. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.

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    • Anonymous (18th cent.). (D'Arminiaensche dreckwage
      Nov. 25, 2016

      Anonymous (18th cent.). (D'Arminiaensche dreckwage

      Est: €200 - €300

      Anonymous (18th cent.). (D'Arminiaensche dreckwagen). Drawing, pen and black and some brown ink and grey wash, 26,8x41,6 cm., tipped onto mount. = After F.M. 1352, w. manuscript key tipped onto the same mount. With attribution on mount to J. Stolker (1724-1785).

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    • Stolker, Jan: Porträt eines Mannes mit Schnurrbart, Pelzmantel, Kalotte und Goldkette
      May. 29, 2014

      Stolker, Jan: Porträt eines Mannes mit Schnurrbart, Pelzmantel, Kalotte und Goldkette

      Est: €300 - €400

      Porträt eines Mannes mit Schnurrbart, Pelzmantel, Kalotte und Goldkette. Schabkunstblatt nach Rembrandt. 12,6 x 10,1 cm. Im weißen Schriftrand signiert "J: Stolker Pinx: et Fecit". Nicht bei Nagler, wohl Le Blanc 13, Wurzbach 14. Ausgezeichneter Druck mit ganz feinem Rändchen an drei Seiten, unten mit breiterem Rand, dort signiert. Leicht fleckig, schwache Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, sonst sehr gut. Provenienz: Auktion Frederik Muller & Cie, Vente Gravures en manière noire, École des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam 1906, Los 280 (laut rückseitiger Bleistiftannotation). - Beigegeben von demselben ein Schabkunstblatt nach Rembrandt "Avia" sowie nach Jan Steen "Das Gasthaus" (Wurzbach 13 und 16).

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    • Stolker, Jan: Der junge Zeichner
      Nov. 28, 2013

      Stolker, Jan: Der junge Zeichner

      Est: €500 - €750

      Der zeichnende Knabe. Schabkunstblatt nach Godfried Schalcken. 18,9 x 15,1 cm. "G: Schalcken Pinx: N: Verkolje Fec.". Wurzbach (Stolker) 23, Andresen (Verkolje) 5. Jan Stolker wurde in Amsterdam geboren und absolvierte seine Ausbildung bei Jan Maurits Quinckhardt, welcher u. a. Schüler von Nicolaas Verkolje gewesen war, bevor Stolker 1753 nach Den Haag übersiedelte, wo er zahlreiche Wanddekorationen ausführte. Neben verschiedenen Kabinettstücken und Malerbildnissen schuf Stolker fünf Radierungen und rund 20 Schabkunstblätter. - Ausgezeichneter, samtener Druck mit gleichmäßig feinem Rändchen um die Plattenkante. In den oberen beiden Eken auf Untersatzpapier montiert, winziges Rostfleckchen unten rechts, sonst tadellos erhalten.

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    • Attribué à JAN STOLKER(1724 – 1785) Portrait d’homme dit de Claude Gellée Cuivre ovale 10 x 8 cm Au dos : Claude Gelée/ dit le Lorra...
      Jun. 22, 2011

      Attribué à JAN STOLKER(1724 – 1785) Portrait d’homme dit de Claude Gellée Cuivre ovale 10 x 8 cm Au dos : Claude Gelée/ dit le Lorra...

      Est: €1,200 - €1,500

      Attribué à JAN STOLKER(1724 – 1785) Portrait d'homme dit de Claude Gellée Cuivre ovale 10 x 8 cm Au dos : Claude Gelée/ dit le Lorrain/ né en 1600/mort en 1682/peint par Van Dyck/ en 1640 Dans un cadre en ivoire

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    • Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)
      Dec. 16, 2010

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam) A woman blowing on coals, in a trompe l'oeil niche signed and inscribed 'J:Stolker Del:ad Exim:Pict: Gd.Schalken in poses: vir Nobilis: J: Snelle Rotterod:' (lower centre) and inscribed in the hand of Ploos van Amstel 'Naar 't orrigineel van Gd Schalken/in 't Kabinet van de Heer Jan Snelle te Rotterdam/gevolgt door J:Stolker./Hoog 12 1/2. Breet 91/2 duym.' (verso) pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper 324 x 248 mm.

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    • Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)
      Dec. 15, 2010

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam) A woman blowing on coals, in a trompe l'oeil niche signed and inscribed 'J:Stolker Del:ad Exim:Pict: Gd.Schalken in poses: vir Nobilis: J: Snelle Rotterod:' (lower centre) and inscribed in the hand of Ploos van Amstel 'Naar 't orrigineel van Gd Schalken/in 't Kabinet van de Heer Jan Snelle te Rotterdam/gevolgt door J:Stolker./Hoog 12 1/2. Breet 91/2 duym.' (verso) pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper 324 x 248 mm.

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    • Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)
      Dec. 14, 2010

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam) A woman blowing on coals, in a trompe l'oeil niche signed and inscribed 'J:Stolker Del:ad Exim:Pict: Gd.Schalken in poses: vir Nobilis: J: Snelle Rotterod:' (lower centre) and inscribed in the hand of Ploos van Amstel 'Naar 't orrigineel van Gd Schalken/in 't Kabinet van de Heer Jan Snelle te Rotterdam/gevolgt door J:Stolker./Hoog 12 1/2. Breet 91/2 duym.' (verso) pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper 324 x 248 mm.

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    • Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)
      Sep. 09, 2008

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam)

      Est: €3,000 - €5,000

      Jan Stolker (Amsterdam 1724-1785 Rotterdam) Portrait of a young gentleman, bust-length, in a black costume with a white collar signed and dated 'I Stolker Pinx. 1754' (centre left) oil on copper, oval 14.2 x 10.5 cm.

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    • Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Elegantly dressed young
      Nov. 22, 2007

      Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Elegantly dressed young

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      Stolker, J. (1724-1785). (Elegantly dressed young lady sitting at a table and holding a parrot, an old woman standing beside her and a man entering the room in the background). Watercolour after F. VAN MIERIS, 31,8x38,6 cm., verso w. contemp. annot. in pen and brown ink "F: van Mieris Pinxit/ J: Stolker Delineavit/ Hoog 12¾ Breet 15 Duym". - Lacking a very sm. portion of the lower right corner; waterstained in lower part (hardly visible on recto), sl. affecting the annotation on verso; small rubbed spot and some very sm. tears in lower margin. = Very fine drawing after a painting by FRANS VAN MIERIS I (1635-1681), of which the present whereabouts are unknown. A similar, but less accomplished drawing, is present in the collection of the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris. In an article published in the periodical Masters Drawings (1978, p.9) Van Mieris-specialist Otto Naumann suggests that the Paris drawing concerns a phantasy composition based on the Van Mieris painting "The Oyster Meal", now part of the collection of the Mauritshuis, The Hague. He identifies the man and the woman in the painting as the artist and his wife Cunera Cock. The annotation on verso of our drawing, possibly by Jan Stolker himself, specifying the sizes of the original, however suggests that there actually exists (existed?) a painting with this composition by (or at the time attributed to) Van Mieris. Our drawing was part of the auction of the Jan Stolker estate, held in Rotterdam on 27 March 1786. In the catalogue (under 'Kunstboek D, no.169') it was described as: "Een zeer cierlyk geklede Dame, met een roode zyde en met wit band gevoerde open mantel en wit faryne rok aan, zit met de een hand achter op haare stoel leunenede, en een Papegaai op de vinger houdende, met een bloote borst, natuurlyk te spreeken, tegens eene nevens haar staande, zoo 't schynt oude Koppelares die in een brnin [sic] laken, met bond omboord bovenkleed en geelachtige sluijer over 't hoofd, haar vriendelyk aanziet, terwyl een Heer aan den ingang der kamer staande, haar beiden schynt te bespieden; voor haar staat eenen, met een Tapyt overdekte Tafel, op welke een fraaije Spiegel met een groen zyde Gordyn, een zilvere Schotel, met Persiken en Okkernoten, en een koffertje met Peerlen en Edelgesteentes; agter haar, een Ledikant met groen behangsel, alles is uitsteekend en meesterlyk behandeld, na 't Schilderij van F. van Mieris, hoog 12¾, breed 15 duim." On the artist i.a. Wurzbach p.665: "Mitglied der Confrerie im Haag, 1766 und 1770 Vorstand der Gilde in Rotterdam, wo er auch eine Tapetenfabrik errichtete. Er war einer der vorzüglichsten Zeichner". SEE COLOUR ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.

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    • JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM
      Nov. 14, 2006

      JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM

      Est: €8,000 - €12,000

      THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR A PORTRAIT OF AN ELEGANT LADY SEATED, THREE QUARTER LENGTH, IN A STONE WINDOW, WEARING A WHITE SATIN LOW NECKED DRESS WITH TIED UP SLEEVES, LACE UNDERDRESS AND FLAT FEATHERED HAT, HOLDING A SHELL IN HER HAND, AND WITH A GARLAND OF FLOWERS ON HER LAP, SCULPTED FOUNTAIN IN A GARDEN BEYOND measurements note 57.9 by 46.4 cm. oil on canvas PROVENANCE With P. Larsen, London, 1949 (as Caspar Netscher); Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 October 1983, lot 95 (as attributed to Jacques Ignatius de Roore); With Hoogsteder, The Hague, 1985 (as Frans van der Mijn); Anonymous sale, The Hague, Venduehuis der Notarissen, 4-6 November 1986, lot 98 (as attributed to Frans van der Mijn); With Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague, 1987, cat. no. 23. NOTE Formerly attributed to Frans van der Mijn (1719-1783), this portrait was first recognised as a work by Jan Stolker by Drs Ineke Wansink of the RKD in 1987, identifying it as the pendant to the Portrait of a Man at a window, said to be officer Menkema, signed and dated 1751, of identical measurements, sold, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 15 December 1953, lot 113 (see fig. 1). Although the traditional identification of the pendant cannot be confirmed, it seems likely that the couple has been part of the rich elite of The Hague, where Stolker lived at that time; he, obviously a dragoon with the flat pointed cap on the window sill beside him; she, a woman of society, dressed according to the latest fashion. Stolker chose to present the portraits as genre paintings, alluding to the famous painters of the Leiden School by using the motif of the stone window and by placing the woman amidst symbols of fertility and love, such as the shell and the fountain, yet adding a typical 18th century flavour of international coquetterie to the portrait. Portraits such as these were therefore categorised as coquetjes. An important facet of 18th century coquetterie was fashion. Indeed the sitter is dressed à la mode and wears a similar dress and hat as Mrs Sarah Crowther, in the portrait by Frans van der Mijn of about the same time ( formerly Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1950; see W. Loos et al., Het galante Tijdperk, Amsterdam 1995, p. 56, reproduced fig. 19a ). Van der Mijn, who had settled in London circa 1750, counted among the most fashionable portraitists of his day. Jan Stolker is today a somewhat forgotten painter. In his own day, however, he gained considerable fame and success, first as a portraitist and painter of wall decorations and ceilings and later as watercolourist, specialising in copies after the famous paintings of 17th century masters, which were in great demand, as becomes apparent from a sale in 1868, where a collection of 400 of these watercolours were offered. So far, his known painted oeuvre is only small and portraits such as this one are rare. It is likely that a large number of his painted output is still hidden in private collections, as already suggested by R. van der Eynden and A. van der Willigen, Stolker´s first biographers, in their Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, vol. II, Haarlem 1817, pp. 181/5.

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    • JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM
      Nov. 16, 2005

      JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM

      Est: €1,200 - €1,800

      A THREE-QUARTER LENGTH PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST HEYMAN DULLAERT, SEATED, SMOKING AND HOLDING A GLASS IN HIS LEFT HAND measurements note 218 by 183 mm inscribed upper left corner: H. Dullaert/ad se jpse pinxt:/Aet. 40 Ao.1676. and verso, in the hand of Ploos van Amstel: H:Dullaert pinxt: 1676./Hoog 8 1/2. Breet 7 duymen. watercolour, within brown ink framing lines PROVENANCE Jan Stolker, Rotterdam, his deceased sale, Rotterdam, 27 March 1786, lot 152 (for 46 florins); Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (L.3002-3004) LITERATURE E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava: beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen, Amsterdam 1897, vol.I, p. 251, no. 2172-1; H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Amsterdam 1963, p. 88, no. 556-1. NOTE Jan Stolker worked in Amsterdam as a portrait painter and also made several miniatures of 17th-century artists. This drawing seems to be a copy after an unkown self-portrait by Heyman Dullaert. In 1757 Stolker moved to Rotterdam were he started to make wall decorations. Included in his of his estate (see provenance) were many copies of paintings by well known 17th-century artists. See also the previous lot.

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    • JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM
      Nov. 16, 2005

      JAN STOLKER AMSTERDAM 1724 - 1785 ROTTERDAM

      Est: €1,400 - €1,800

      A WOMAN IN A NICHE BLOWING ON COALS IN AN EARTHWARE POT measurements note 322 by 245 mm inscribed recto : J:Stolker Del: ad Exim:Pict: Gd.Schalken in poses:vir Nobilis:J:Snelle Rotterod: and verso, in the hand of Ploos van Amstel: Naar 't orrigineel van GdSchalken/in't kabinet van de Heer Jan Snelle te Rotterdam/gevolgt door J:Stolker./Hoog 12 1/2.Breet 91/2 duym. watercolour and gouache PROVENANCE Jan Stolker, Rotterdam, his deceased sale, Rotterdam, 27 March 1786, lot 192; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (L.2034, with his inscriptions, see above). NOTE This watercolour must be based on a lost original by Godfried Schalken, otherwise known today only through a very damaged studio version, now in the Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux (see T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, cat. no. 304). As Ploos van Amstel's inscription on the verso indicates, the original painting was in the collection of the Rotterdam merchant and sugar refiner Jan Snellen (1711-1787), who was a celebrated collector of objets d'art and naturalia, as well as paintings and drawings. Snellen was personally acquainted with many leading scientists of the day, and also with renowned collectors such as Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, who owned this drawing. Unlike Snellen's collection of naturalia, sold at auction in Rotterdam in 1787, his art collection was never fully documented, remaining in the posession of his descendants. A splendid portrait of the collector and his family by Aert Schouman was until recently in the Unicorno Collection (sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 19 May 2004, lot 217, now in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; for further information see also R.J.A. te Rijdt, "Een 'nieuw' portret van een 'nieuwe' verzamelaar van kunst en naturaliën: Jan Snellen geportretteerd door Aert Schouman in 1746", in Oud Holland, vol. 110, no. I, 1997, p. 22-53). See also the following lot.

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