Lot 64: JAN ANTHONISZ. VAN RAVESTEYN

JAN ANTHONISZ. VAN RAVESTEYN THE HAGUE CIRCA 1572 - 1657 PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, HEAD AND SHOULDERS, WEARING A BLACK SHIRT AND WHITE RUFF inscribed, signed and dated upper right: An. o 1623 : Æta. 43 . / JVR (in ligature) avesteyn. F oil on panel 67 by 50 cm.; 26 3/8 by 19 5/8 in.

Yakov Dmitriyevich Lanskoy and Praskoyva Nikolayevna Dolgorukova (1770-1820; their wax seal on the reverse);
Probably by descent to their son Vladimir Yakovlevich Lanskoy (1800-20);
Probably Siret sale, Brussels, Giroux, 15 December 1930, lot 70.

One of the wax seals on the reverse displays the coats-of arms of the Lanskoy and Dolgorukov families of Russia. The families were joined through the marriage of Yakov Dmitriyevich Lanskoy to Praskoyva Nikolayevna Dolgorukova (1770-1820) and the seal here thus pertains to them or their son Vladimir Yakovlevich Lanskoy (1800-20). Yakov Dmitriyevich Lanskoy was the brother of General Alexander Dmitriyevich Lanskoy (1758-1784), a favourite of Catherine II.