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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 1, 2022 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Day Auction | 151 | $****** - ****** | Good | Portrait of Beatrix Van Alphen (1672–1728) at the age of five, full-length, wearing a red silk dress and feathered hat, holding a basket of flowers, with a papillon spaniel |
paintings
69.9 x 58 cm (27.52 x 22.83 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower centre: NMaes / 1677
Possibly the sitter's father Daniel van Alphen (1638-1711);
Thence by descent to his daughter, the sitter, Beatrix van Alphen (1672-1728);
Thence to her son Adriaan van Assendelft (1691-1752);
Thence to his daughter Beatrix van Assendelft (1718-1788);
Thence to her daughter Maria Anna Pompe van Slingelandt (1746-1805);
Thence to her daughter Maria Susanna Theodora de Wildt (1766-1851), given on loan by her to the city of Leiden in 1838;
P. Teding van Berkhout, Bloemendaal, 1915;
With Kunsthandel De Wildt, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 9 December 1930, lot 251B (as dated 1679), for 2,200 giulders to Van Bever;
Van Lennep collection;
Thence by descent to Mrs Bicker-van Lennep, Aerdenhout, 1962;
With Charles Roelofsz, Amsterdam, 2000 (when exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht);
From whom acquired by the father of the present owners.
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, Catalogus van de tentoonstelling van oude kunst uit het bezit van bewoners van Haarlem en omstreken , 14 June - 12 July 1915, no. 141;
The Hague, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, and London, National Gallery, Nicolaes Maes: Rembrandts veelzijdige leerling , 17 October 2019 - 19 January 2020 and 22 February - 31 May 2020, no. 33.
Lijst van de Portretten, Wapenen en Schilderijen behorende aan Mejuffrouw Suzanna Theodora de Wildt , MS, Leiden City Archives (acc. no. NL-Ldno.AL-0516), Leiden 1838;
B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff , Munich 1987, p. 410, reproduced;
L. Krempel, Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) , Petersberg 2000, p. 320, no. A 189, reproduced fig. 276;
A. van de Suchtelen, Nicolaes Maes: Rembrandts veelzijdige leerling , exh. cat., Zwolle 2019, pp. 164-73, and 215, no. 33, reproduced p. 168;
London Visitors , review of the Nicolaes Maes exhibition, where reproduced with the other three Van Alphen portraits: https://londonvisitors.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/img_4814.jpg
Property from a European Private Collection
Nicolaes Maes
Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam
Portrait of Beatrix Van Alphen (1672-1728) at the age of five, full-length, wearing a red silk dress and feathered hat, holding a basket of flowers, with a papillon spaniel
signed and dated lower centre: NMaes / 1677
oil on canvas
unframed: 69.9 x 58 cm.; 27½ x 22⅞ in.
framed: 85.2 x 73.6 cm.; 33½ x 29 in.
