Lot n° 198
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
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Result
: 3 864EUR
Ecole HOLLANDAISE du XVIIIe siècle, entourage de Philipp Van - Lot 198
Ecole HOLLANDAISE du XVIIIe siècle, entourage de Philipp Van DIJK (1683-1753)
Portrait of Magtelina Christina Lestevenon, in blue dress, with her jaco parrot (grey parrot of Gabon) and her dog.
Oil on canvas
51.8 x 43.6 cm.
Signed in the right margin, on the side of the back:
M.Verheyl...
On the back, lined canvas: painted coat of arms of the family
Lestevenon (Amsterdam) which are blazoned: "Gules a crescent Argent; on a chief Or, charged with three flanks Sable", and annotations (of the eighteenth century): "Magtelina Christina Lestevenon/Gebn: 20 augs 1740 . Getr: 22 septr 176?/Gesch 176?"
Member of the high society of Amsterdam, the Lestevenons being members of the Dutch patrician families (regenten), Magtelina
Christina (1741-1789) was the daughter of François Lestevenon (1702- 1767), a prominent statesman, who was notably mayor of Amsterdam twice (1762, 1765).
Magtelina married in 1761 Jean François van Byemont (1740- 1783) who was mayor of The Hague (Den Haag) in 1782. Widowed the following year, she married Robert Collot d'Escury (1753-1834) in 1785,
Receiver General of Taxes of the Batave Republic.
Following her second marriage, she was notably portrayed in 1786, her and her husband, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750-1812) known as "Tischbein of Leipzig" (private collection, current location unknown, RKD n°48193 and 48194).
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