FRIESIAN SCHOOL, 1595

Lot 107
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513629
Lot 107 | FRIESIAN SCHOOL, 1595
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
FRIESIAN SCHOOL, 1595
Portrait of Jancke van Douma van Langweer van Oldenboorn (1568/9-1631), three-quarter-length, in a yellow doublet, resting his hand on a hat
oil on canvas
38 7/8 x 29 3/8 in. (98.7 x 74.6 cm.)
inscribed 'ÆTATIS SVÆ 26 / ANo1595' (upper right), with the sitter's coat of arms upper left




Provenance

(Probably) by inheritance to the sitter's great-nephew,
Sjuk Sjuks van Burmania (1597-1650), and by descent in the van Burmania family at Martena Castle, Kornjum, Friesland.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1987, lot 112 (part lot).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 1991, lot 115 (part lot), as 'Attributed to The Friesian-Groningen Master (active 1595-1626)'.
with Anthony Mould, London, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Amsterdam, 1897, I, p. 245, no. 2116.1.
A. Wassenbergh, De portretkunst in Friesland in de zeventiende eeuw, Lochen, 1967, p. 17, no. 5, as 'The Friesian-Groningen Master'.
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