Lot 249: JAN VERKOLJE THE ELDER AMSTERDAM 1650 - 1693 DELFT

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THREE-QUARTER LENGTH SEATED, WEARING A RED DRESS WITH A BLUE SHAWL

measurements note
45 by 35.5 cm.; 17 3/4 by 14 in.

signed and dated lower left: J.. Verkolje/ 1687

oil on canvas, in a carved gilt wood frame

NOTE

The sitter bears a strong resemblance to Margaretha Verkolje (possibly the artist's sister), wife of Reinier Couturier, whose portrait Verkolje painted in 1682 and that is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A2200).