Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Michiel van Mierevelt
Portrait of Johan Camerlin (1567-1640), aged 59, standing three quarter length by a table, wearing a black costume with lace collar and cuffs, his left hand resting on a book; Portrait of Catharina Camerlin, née Wielant (1572-1633), aged 59, standing three quarter length by a table, wearing a black dress with a millstone ruff, cuffs and a bonnet
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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
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200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Michiel van Mierevelt
Delft 1566 - 1641
Portrait of Johan Camerlin (1567-1640), aged 59, standing three quarter length by a table, wearing a black costume with lace collar and cuffs, his left hand resting on a book;
Portrait of Catharina Camerlin, née Wielant (1572-1633), aged 59, standing three quarter length by a table, wearing a black dress with a millstone ruff, cuffs and a bonnet
the former inscribed, dated and signed center left: AEtatis 59, / A.o 1626. / M. Miereveld.;
the latter inscribed, dated and signed upper right: AEtatis, 59. / A.o 1631. / M. Miereveld
a pair, both oil on panel
each panel: 44¼ by 34 in.; 112.4 by 86.4 cm.
each framed: 52 by 41½ in.; 132.1 by 105.4 cm.
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Thence by descent to their daughter, Elisabeth della Faille, née Camerlin;
Thence by descent to her son, Johan della Faille (1628-1713);
Thence by descent to his son, Johan Bernard della Faille (1672-1729);
Thence by descent to his son, Abraham Nicolaas della Faille (1716-1793);
Thence by descent to his daughter, Maria Catharina Francesca Tellegen, née della Faille (1740-1823);
Thence by descent to her daughter, Catharina Elisa Odulpha de Neree, née Tellegen (1782-1860);
Thence by descent to her grandson, Jean Philippe Rudolphe Marie de Nerée tot Babberich (1850-1916), The Hague;
Thence by descent to his son, Frans Joseph Willem Marie de Nerée tot Babberich (1897-1959), Vught;
By whose estate sold ("Property of the Late F.J.W.M. de Neree tot Babberich, Vught"), Amsterdam, Christie's, 13 November 1995, lot 132;
There acquired by the present collector.
Catalogus der Schilderijen in het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1903, cat. nos. 1593 and 1594;
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadres, etc.du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1904, p. 208, cat. nos. 1593 and 1594;
Catalogue of the pictures miniatures, pastels, framed water colour drawings, etc, in the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1905, p. 221, cat. nos. 1593 and 1594;
Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van geschiedenis en kunst, vol. XXIX, 1906, p. 27, cat. nos. 618 and 619;
E.J. Wolleswinkel, "Het belang van Kwartierstaatsonderzoek voor de identificatie van geportretteerden," in Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, VIII, 1989, pp. 94-95, reproduced figs. 1 and 2;
M. Senenko, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: Collection of Dutch Paintings XVII-XIX Centuries, Moscow 2009, p. 246, under cat. no. 1929 (only Catharina Camerlin discussed).