Lot 26: PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN PRIVATE COLLECTION HIERONYMUS VAN DER MIJ LEIDEN 1687 - 1761

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN PRIVATE COLLECTION HIERONYMUS VAN DER MIJ LEIDEN 1687 - 1761 PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, STANDING IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH A SPANIEL AND A PERROQUET IN A TREE NEARBY

signed on the rock lower left: H:Vand^r/ Mij f^ec.

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

In the family of the present owner since at least circa 1950.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Van der Mij's meticulously-detailed portraits of Dutch gentry, generally on a small scale, placed him among the Leidse Fijnschilders (literally the 'Leiden Fine-painters'), of which his teacher, Willem van Mieris, was a chief exponent. A comparable picture by Van der Mij, A Portrait of Claudine van Royen in a landscape, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. C1526).

51.1 by 40.2 cm.; 20 1/8 by 15 3/4 in.