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MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)

Lot 134
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1443083
Lot 134 | MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
MICHAEL SWEERTS (BRUSSELS 1618-1664 GOA)
A lady sewing lace in an interior
oil on canvas
19 ½ x 15 ½ in. (49.5 x 39.4 cm.)




Provenance

William Sharp Ogden (1845-1926), architect and historian; (†), Christie's, London, 6 December 1926, lot 54 (230 gns. to the following),
with A.H. Buttery, London, 1926.
Mrs. Holdbrooke, Bladon Castle, Burton-on-Trent; Christie's, London, 17 February 1939, lot 143 (52 gns. to the following),
with W. Sabin, London.
John T. Dorrance, Jr. (1919-1989); Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 12.
with Colnaghi, London, by 1992, from whom acquired by,
Professor Nelson Goodman (1906-1998), Massachusetts.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 67, where acquired by the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale [Property of a Distinguished Private Collector]; Christie's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 10, where acquired by the father of the present owner.



Literature

R. Kultzen, Michiel Sweerts, Ph.D. dissertation, Hamburg, 1954, p. 45, no. 122.
R. Longhi, 'Qualche appunto su Michele Sweerts', Paragone, IX, 1958, p. 74, no. 107, fig. 30.
R. Kultzen, Michiel Sweerts, Doornspijk, 1996, p. 135, no. D6, fig. 150, under 'doubtful attributions', on the basis of an old photograph.
J. Bikker, 'The Deutz Brothers, Italian Paintings and Michiel Sweerts: New Information from Elisabeth Coymans's "Journael"', Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, 1998, XXVI, no. 4, p. 299, fig. 18.



Exhibited

Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, An offbeat American Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, November 1993-January 1994, no. 18.
Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1995-1996, on loan (lent by Nelson Goodman).
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