Lot 125: MATTHEUS TERWESTEN THE HAGUE 1670 - 1757

signed and dated on a stone lower centre: M/TERWE/STEN 1732

oil on canvas

65 by 54.8 cm.

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Possibly the artist's deceased sale, The Hague, Pictura, 20 September 1757, lot 34 ('een Ceres met Kindertjes en meer Bijwerk door denzelven').

Mattheus Terwesten, son of an Augsburg gold- and silversmith, was taught by his elder brother Augustinus, Willem Doudijns and Daniel Mijtens the Younger. He fulfilled a need for decorative painters in early-18th Century The Hague. Terwesten's style varied little throughout his career; this work can be compared with a similar composition of Andromeda, dated 1697, in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig (inv. no. 296).