Lot 33: ALEIJDA WOLFSEN ZWOLLE 1648 - 1692

PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, WEARING A WHITE SILK CHEMISE AND A GOLD EMBROIDERED BLUE DRESS

measurements note
51.5 by 37.5 cm.; 20 1/4 by 14 5/8 in.

signed and indistinctly dated lower left: Aleijda Wolfsen. / fecit / 167...

oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

PROVENANCE

Thomas Baring (1799-1873), his collectors stencil on the reverse;
Thence by family descent to the present owner.

NOTE

Aleijda Wolfsen was the daughter of Hendick Wolfsen, the Burgomaster of Zwolle. Wolfsen was a pupil and close personal friend of Caspar Netscher and was a witness at the baptism of two of his children (in 1673 and 1678). In 1667, she and her husband, Pieter Soury returned to Zwolle, but she is recorded returning sporadically to The Hague, for example in 1674 when she painted the portrait of William III of Orange.

Thomas Baring, a partner at Baring's bank, amassed one of the greatest collections of Dutch art in England during the 19th century.