Diederik van Bleyswijk (1711-63), Baron of Eethen and Meeuwen, Lord of Babiloniënbroek, Burgomaster of Gorkum

Diederik van Bleyswijk (1711-63), Baron of Eethen and Meeuwen, Lord of Babiloniënbroek, Burgomaster of Gorkum

SK-A-3859

Portret van Diederik van Bleyswijk, vrijheer van Eethen en Meeuwen, heer van Babiloniënbroek, burgemeester van Gorkum. Ovaal portret, ten halven lijve, in de linkerhand een snuifdoos, op de achtergrond een buitenverblijf. Pendant van SK-A-3860.

painter: Conrad Kuster

1761

oil on canvas

• height 87.5 cm x width 67 cm
• depth 5.5 cm

Gift of M.C. van Houten, Doorn

gift 1953

Public domain

? Commissioned by or for the sitters, Gorinchem; ? their son, Abraham van Bleyswijk (1735-95), Gorinchem; ? his daughter, Antonia Adriana Henrika van Bleyswijk (1766-1803), Meeuwen, near Aalburg (North Brabant); ? her son, Hendrik André Cornelis Tierens (1794-1851), Meeuwen, near Aalburg (North Brabant); ? his daughter, Cornelia Hendrika Andrea Tierens (1818-89), Heusden; ? her daughter, Cecilia Geertruijdt Verhagen (1849-1934), Utrecht; her son, Lieutenant Marius Cornelis van Houten (1879-1953), Doorn, Utrecht; by whom donated to the museum, with xx other objects, 1936, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum, 1953

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