Portrait of Willem Fransz van Schoterbosch (c. 1510-?)

Portrait of Willem Fransz van Schoterbosch (c. 1510-?)

SK-A-4773

Portret van Willem Fransz Overrijn van Schoterbosch (geb. ca. 1510). Ten halven lijve, staand met handschoenen in de rechterhand, de linkerhand op het gevest van zijn zwaard. Linksboven het familiewapen. Misschien een kopie door Cornelis Engelsz. naar een onbekende origineel uit ca. 1560. Behoort tot een groep portretten: SK-A-4753 / SK-A-4754 / SK-A-4776 / SK-A-4772 / SK-A-4771 / SK-A-4756 / SK-A-4757 / SK-A-4773 / SK-A-4758 / SK-A-4759 / SK-A-4775 en SK-A-4774.

• inscription, centre left: ‘ÆTATIS 40’
• inscription, on the reverse, in black paint: ‘3 / Willem Overyn van Schoterbosch, geb 15[..]’
• coat of arms, upper left: a red chevron and three red fleurs-de-lis on a silver ground

• painter: attributed to Cornelis Engelsz.
• painter: anoniem, Northern Netherlands [rejected attribution]

c. 1620

olieverf op paneel

height 38.7 cm x width 28.5 cm x depth 1.7 cm

Jonkheer E.L.W.M. Hoeufft van Velsen Bequest, Meeuwen

Public domain

? Commissioned by Johan Gerritsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1564-1654); ? his granddaughter, Aegje Hasselaer (1617-64), Amsterdam; ? her son, Gerrit Hooft (1649-1717), Amsterdam; ? his son, Hendrik Hooft (1676-1752), Amsterdam and The Hague; ? his daughter, Suzanna Isabella Hooft (1716-1803), The Hague; ? her son, Hendrik Hoeufft, Lord of Velsen and Santpoort (1747-1823), The Hague and Amsterdam; by descent to Jonkheer Ernest Louis Willy Marc Hoeufft, Lord of Velsen and Santpoort (1903-65), Meeuwen; by whom bequeathed to the museum, 1965{Provenance reconstructed in Ekkart 1985, p. 110, note 7.}

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