Live Auction 8014The Cowdray Sale: Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht House, At Cowdray Park, West Sussex
Jan Albertsz. Rootius (Medemblik 1615-1674 Hoorn)
Lot 152

Jan Albertsz. Rootius (Medemblik 1615-1674 Hoorn)

Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a black dress with lace-edged collar and cuffs, a black cap, a jewelled pendant brooch, holding a time-piece in her right hand, by a draped table

Closed15 September 2011

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GBP 20,000

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Jan Albertsz. Rootius (Medemblik 1615-1674 Hoorn)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a black dress with lace-edged collar and cuffs, a black cap, a jewelled pendant brooch, holding a time-piece in her right hand, by a draped table
inscribed and dated 'AEtatis.suae.32.1653.' and indistinctly signed '...fec.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
45½ x 35 1/8 in. (115.5 x 89.2 cm.)

R. Prioleau Roupell.
Acquired from Leggatt Brothers, London, in 1931, by Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray.

Specialist note

Born in Medemblik in 1615 or 1624 Jan Abertisz. Rootius arrived in Amsterdam, where he became one of the pupils of Peter Lastman, who had been a teacher to Jan Lievens and Rembrandt. Rootius acquired a considerable reputation as a painter of portraits and still-lifes in his home town. His paintings today can be seen at the West-Fries Museum in Hoorn and in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.