LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

3: 56.6 x 41.2 cm.; 4: 56.8 x 41.3 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

all annotated and dated on the reverse of the canvasses: the first 'Jan Craeyvanger 1658'; the second 'Willem Craeyvanger 1658'; the third 'Reynder Craeyvanger 1658'; and the fourth 'Engel Craeyvanger 1658'

Condition:

unlined (all)

Literature:

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs sowie biographisches Material, The Hague, 1959-60, I, p. 113 (under no. 103), p. 146 (under no. 135), and p. 289 (under Pieter van Anraedt), as a pupil of Ter Borch and as five portraits by one single hand and the other three by another hand, and as one of the portraits signed 'GTB'.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Willem Craeyvanger (1616-1659), Arnhem. Probably by descent to his second son Willem Craeyvanger (1643-1711). Probably by descent to his second son Gijsbert Craeyvanger. Probably by descent to his second son Gijsbert Craeyvanger, Utrecht. Probably by descent to his third son Willem Craeyvanger. Probably by descent to his second son Lodewijk Craeyvanger (1788-1859), Utrecht. Probably by descent to his eldest son Willem Craeyvanger (1820-1873), Deventer. By descent to his eldest daughter Louise Maria Craeyvanger (1854-1924), Naumburg a/d Saale. By descent to her sister Jacoba Theodora Craeyvanger (1856-1938), Naumburg a/d Saale. By descent to Countess Limburg-Stirum born Luden, Olst - grandchild of Marie Louise Craeyvanger who married Hendrik Lodewijk Maurits Luden in 1854 - (respectively inv. nos. 29, 30, 25 and 24). Thence by descent to the present family members.