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Jan de Baen (Haarlem 1633-1702 The Hague)
Lot 132

Jan de Baen (Haarlem 1633-1702 The Hague)

Portrait of Cornelis Tromp (1629-1691), three-quarter-length, in a breastplate, his right hand resting on his coat-of-arms

Closed21 November 2013

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Jan de Baen (Haarlem 1633-1702 The Hague)
Portrait of Cornelis Tromp (1629-1691), three-quarter-length, in a breastplate, his right hand resting on his coat-of-arms
signed 'Baen' (centre left)
oil on canvas
112.9 x 92 cm.

Commissioned together with a portrait of his wife Margaretha van Raephorst;
(Possibly) inherited on his niece Dina Cornelia Tromp (1657-1699), married to Thomas van Beresteyn (1647-1708) and by descent to Gijsbert van Beresteyn (1804-1884), His sale; Kasteel Maurick, Vught, 22 October 1844, under lots 17-46b.
Collection van Heeswijk; Frederik Muller, Den Bosch, 19 June 1900, lot 3 (together with the pendant as lot 2), to Mr F.A.J. van Lanschot for Nlg. 300, and by descent.

Specialist note

The son of legendary Dutch Admiral Maarten Harpertsz. Tromp, Cornelis followed in his father's footsteps, becoming an Admiral and a naval hero of the Anglo-Dutch wars. Tromp was a fearless man, seeking out personal battles -of which his feud with the English Admiral Edward Spragge is infamous- rather than followwing the line-of-battle of his superior Michiel Adriaensz. de Ruyter. Tromp's high self-esteem led to numerous portrait commissions to the leading portraitists of his time, including Ferdinand Bol, Sir Peter Lely and Jan Mijtens, which were displayed in his warship-shaped manor house Trompenburgh in 's Graveland.
The present painting is a pendant to the portrait of his wife Margaretha van Raephorst (1625-1690), now in a private collection. Jan de Baen portrayed the couple Tromp-van Raephorst a second time several years later, these portraits are now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. nos. SK-A-285 and SK-A-284).