Lot 56: Caesar Boetius van Everdingen (Alkmaar 1616/17-1678)

Caesar Boetius van Everdingen (Alkmaar 1616/17-1678)
Portrait of Nanning van Veen, half-length, in a black costume with a white collar, holding a pair of gloves; and Portrait of Isabella van Tienen, half-length, in a black dress, black cap and a white collar and cuffs, holding a fan and a book
the first signed with monogram, dated and inscribed with the sitter's age 'AETATIS. 54 i656 cvE' (AE linked, lower left); the second inscribed and dated with the sitter's age 'AETATIS. 62 ANNO 1664' (lower left)
oil on canvas
both 101.1 x 84.6 cm.
a pair (2)

Heidelberg, Städtischen Sammlungsgebeude, Meisterporträts aus Heidelberger Besitz, 1914, nos. 34 and 35.

M. Schasler, Berlins Kunstschätze, Berlin, 1856, p. 355, as Karel Dujardin.
P. Huys Janssen, Caesar van Everdingen 1616/17-1678, Doornspijk, 2002, pp. 76-7, nos. 16 and 17, plates XII and XIII.

Bartels, Berlin, 1856, as Karel Dujardin.
Dr. W.J. von Derschau, Heidelberg, 1914.
Anonymous sale; Leo Spik, Berlin, 17-19 June 1999, lot 341.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 2000.
with X. Scheidwimmer, Munich, where bought by the present collector in 2007.