Lot 28: THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN JAN JANSZ. WESTERBAEN THE HAGUE CIRCA 1601 - 1686 A PORTRAIT OF

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN JAN JANSZ. WESTERBAEN THE HAGUE CIRCA 1601 - 1686 A PORTRAIT OF CORNELIA VAN DER DOES-REYNST (1615-1708), HALF LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK DRESS WITH WHITE LACE CUFFS, COLLAR AND BONNET, HOLDING A FAN IN HER RIGHT HAND

signed with monogram and dated centre right: A^o 1655/ I. WB (in ligature)

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Van der Does;
Thence by descent to Nahuys;
Thence by descent to De Jong van Beek en Donk (all the above according to a note in the Iconografisch Bureau, The Hague);
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 22 April 1980, lot 150;
Where bought by the present owner.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Cornelia was the daughter of Hendrik Reynst, the director of the East-India Company (V.O.C.) and member of the Amsterdam city council. She married Hendrik van der Does, burgomaster of Gorinchem, in 1644. The pendant to this portrait, of her husband, was formerly in the Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan, until recently sold. Their portraits were also painted in 1665 by Pieter Nason (c.1612-1690).

82 by 65 cm.