Live Auction 5956European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part II
Attributed to L. Lucius, (fl. 1775-1790)
Lot 567

Attributed to L. Lucius, (fl. 1775-1790)

Portraits of Christiaan Hendrik van der Feltz (1746 - 1793); his wife Catherine Sophie Jacoba (Jacqueline) le Vaillant (1739 - 1806); and their daughter Louisa Isabella van der Feltz (1778-1857)

Closed1 October 2014

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GBP 2,125

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Attributed to L. Lucius, (fl. 1775-1790)
Portraits of Christiaan Hendrik van der Feltz (1746 - 1793); his wife Catherine Sophie Jacoba (Jacqueline) le Vaillant (1739 - 1806); and their daughter Louisa Isabella van der Feltz (1778-1857)
bodycolour
3 x 4 ¼ in (7.6 x 10.8 cm.); and smaller; oval
(3)three in the lot

Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, 14 October 1986 (lot untraced).

Specialist note

Christiaan Hendrik van der Feltz (1746-1793) was a major in the Orange Friesland regiment of Life Guards, he was killed at the battle of Lincelles at Lille Aug. 18, 1793. His regiment was based in Leeuwarden 1784–90 and Zwolle thereafter, L. Lucius was an artist working in Leeuwarden at the same time. The group are documented on the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History image database with the same attribution. The database also includes a portrait of Anna Jacoba Wilhelmina van Aylva (1778-1814) by the same hand which is in fact fully attributed and signed 'L. Lucius' and which is held in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.

We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in cataloguing this lot.