Lot 25: Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam 1596-1667)

Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam 1596-1667) >Portrait of Frederick van Velthuysen (d. 1658) and his son Dirck (1651-1716), full-length, in an Italianate park landscape with a sculpture of Homer<br>indistinctly signed with monogram and dated '1660' (lower left) >oil on canvas <br>90 x 76,9 cm.

A. Adams, Thomas de Keyser, Michigan, 1985, p. 154, no. 90. >E.J. Wolleswinkel, 'De schoonfamilie van de (portret) schilder Thomas de Keyser', in: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, 118, 1-2, 2001, pp. 309-27. >E. Devapriam, 'A double portrait by Thomas de Keyser in the National Gallery of Victoria', in: The Burlington Magazine, October 1990, CXXXII, pp. 710-13, fig. 40.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 June 1969, lot 59 (£2,000 to the following). >with Leger Galleries, London, from whom purchased by the father of the present owners, in c. 1973.