BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM) - photo 1
BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM) - photo 2
BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM) - photo 3

BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM)

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Lot 12 | BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM)
BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER HELST (HAARLEM C. 1613-1670 AMSTERDAM)

Portrait of Sophia Coymans (1636-1714), three-quarter-length, holding a twig with an orange, before a landscape

signed ‘B . vander. helst . f .’ (lower left)

oil on canvas

42 5/8 x 34 7/8 in. (108.2 x 85.9 cm.)

inscribed with the sitter's family coat-of-arms (upper right)





Provenance

In all likelihood commissioned by Joan Huydecoper II, Lord of Maarsseveen (1625-1704) and Sophia Coymans (1636-1714), and by inheritance to,

Jan Elias Huydecoper (1669-1744), and by descent to his son,

Jan Huydecoper (1693-1752), and by descent to his son,

Jan Elias Huydecoper (1735-1808), and by descent to his son,

Joan Huydecoper (1769-1836), and by descent to his son,

Jan Elias Huydecoper (1798-1865), and by descent to his son,

Willem Karel Huydecoper (1830-1882), Zeist, and by inheritance to his wife,

Johanna Maria Elisabeth Huydecoper-Dijckmeester (1831-1904), Zeist, and by descent to her daughter,

Marie Isabelle Anna Josine Charlotte Clotterbrooke Patijn-Huydecoper (1860-1949), Zeist, and by descent to her daughter,

Irmgard Marguérite Radermacher Schorer-Clotterbrooke Patijn, Lady of the Manor of Kloetinge (1896-1984), Leusden, and by descent to,

Jeanne Jacqueline van Dijk van ’t Velde-Radermacher Schorer, Jonkvrouwe and Lady of the Manor of Kloetinge (1932-2018), Utrecht, and by descent.



Literature

E. W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen, Amsterdam, 1897, I, p. 206, no. 1790-1, as ‘copy after B. v.d. Helst’ and with the date 1656.

J. J. de Gelder, Bartholomeus van der Helst. Een studie van zijn werk, zijn levensgeschiedenis, een beschrijvende catalogus van zijn oeuvre, een register en 41 afbeeldingen naar schilderijen, Rotterdam, 1921, p. 167, no. 89.

E.-J. Goossens, Schat van beitel en penseel. Het Amsterdamse stadhuis uit de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam/Zwolle, 1996, p. 33, fig. II, as Maria Coymans.

F. Scholten, ‘In de huid van Venus’, Kunstschrift, L, 2006, pp. 44-5, fig. 46.

J. van Gent, Bartholomeus van der Helst (ca. 1613-1670). Een studie naar zijn leven en werk, Zwolle, 2011, p. 293, no. 117, as dated ‘166.’ and dated to 1660.

F. R. Hazenberg, Landgoed Hageveld Heemstede: 5000 jaar bewoningsgeschiedenis, Heemstede, 2011, p. 67, illustrated.



Exhibited

Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Catalogus der Vondeltentoonstelling, February-March 1879, p. 48, no. 559.

Utrecht, Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Catalogus der tentoonstelling van oude schilderkunst te Utrecht, 20 August-1 October 1894, p. 115, no. 311.

Amsterdam, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, on long term loan from circa 1984 to 2000.



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