Live Auction 7800Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
CORNELIS JONSON VAN CEULEN (ANGLO-DUTCH, 1593-1661/62)
Lot 250

CORNELIS JONSON VAN CEULEN (ANGLO-DUTCH, 1593-1661/62)

Closed17 November 2009

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CORNELIS JONSON VAN CEULEN (ANGLO-DUTCH, 1593-1661/62)
A young lady, in dress with white wide bobbin lace collar, crimson ribbon rosette at corsage, thin gold chain, pearl necklace, pendant pearl earring, her light brown curling hair upswept with flowing sides signed with initials and dated 'CsJ 1620' (lower right)
oil on copper
oval, 2 in. (51 mm.) high, turned ivory case (lid deficient), the base inset with reeded oval ebonised horn mount

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 24 June 1935, lot 156 (as School of Jonson, 7 gns to Spink).
Christie's, London, 24 June 1975, lot 58 (as by Cornelius Johnson).

Specialist note

Two signed miniatures by the present artist are in the Museum Briner und Kern, Winterthur (see B. Hofstetter, Die Welt der Bildnisminiatur. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Emil S. Kern, Bern, 2008, p. 67, illustrated in colour, figs. 34 & 35). For an account of Jonson, see K. Hearn, 'The English career of Cornelius Johnson', in J. Roding, et al. (ed.), The English Venture: Dutch and Flemish Artists in Britain 1550-1800, Leiden, 2003, pp. 113-128.