Attributed to Nicolaes van Helt, called Stockade (1614 – 1669)
A pair of unknown Dutch siblings, c.1650
Oil on unlined canvas
46 ½ x 37 in. (118 x 94 cm.)
Private collection, England.
The introduction of a faithful hound into our composition, looking keenly upwards at his young master in anticipation of some treat, is also found in the full-length portrait painted circa 1685 of Edward Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford (Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire). The artist’s finest work is considered to be a portrait dating from circa 1689 of The Hon. Robert Boyle (Royal Society, London).
1 Following William Wissing’s death in 1687, his uncle Friedrich Kerseboom is believed to have worked in collaboration with the painter John Vandervaart.
2 Collins Baker, Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, 1912, vo.II, p.50.
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