Lot 78: Johannes Reekers (1790-1858)

Portrait of the Reverend Hermannus Manger (1773-1844) and his wife Geertruida Coulon, small three-quarter-length, seated by a table, in an interior signed and dated 'I.REEKERS/1811.' (lower centre, on the chair) oil on panel 32.7 x 26.4 cm. PROVENANCE Notarishuis, The Hague; sale, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, 1976, as dated 1817. NOTES Hermannus Manger was the son of Professor Samuel Hendrik Manger and Elisabeth Gerdes and married Geertruida Coulon in 1797. He was active as a reverend in Beers and Jelsum (Friesland) as well as in Haarlem, where Reekers was working.