Lot 69: JAN TILIUS

JAN TILIUS 'SHERTOGENBOSCH CIRCA 1660 - 1719 PORTRAIT OF ISABELLA DE SAVORNIN (1666-1728) AS MINERVA, STANDING THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, WEARING A WHITE SATIN DRESS WITH A RED SASH AND A PLUMED HAT oil on canvas 78 by 62.2 cm.

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, vol. II, Amsterdam 1905, p. 329, no. 6792 (as anonymous).

Jhr. Mr. W.M. de Brauw, Middelburg, by 1905;
Thence by descent.

Isabella de Savornin was the daughter of Maurits de Savornin, commander of Bergen op Zoom. In 1685 she married Cornelis de Brauw (1664-1728), bailif and supreme dijkgraaf of the cities of Dreischor, Zonnemaire and Noordgouwe, in the province of Zeeland.

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer of the R.K.D., The Hague, for confirming the attribution to Tilius, on the basis of photographs.