Portrait of Gerrit Willemsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1538-1611)

Portrait of Gerrit Willemsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1538-1611)

SK-A-4774

Portret van Gerrit Willemsz. van Schoterbosch (c. 1538-1611). Ten halven lijve, zittend in een stoel, het gezicht naar de beschouwer gedraaid. Voor zich een tafel waarop een boek ligt, in de linkerhand een cachet. Rechtsboven het familiewapen. Misschien een kopie door Cornelis Engelsz. naar een onbekende origineel uit 1605. Behoort tot een groep portretten: SK-A-4753 / SK-A-4754 / SK-A-4776 / SK-A-4772 / SK-A-4771 / SK-A-4756 / SK-A-4757 / SK-A-4773 / SK-A-4758 / SK-A-4759 / SK-A-4775 en SK-A-4774.

• inscription, centre right: ‘ÆTATIS 67 / an 1605’
• inscription, on the reverse, in black paint: ‘4 / Gerrit Overyn van / Schoterbosch / Geb 1538 / Burgermeester van Haarlem’ 4, Gerrit Overyn van Schoterbosch, B 1538, Burgomaster of Haarlem
• coat of arms, upper right: a red chevron and three red fleurs-de-lis on a silver ground

• painter: attributed to Cornelis Engelsz
• painter: anonymous, Northern Netherlands [rejected attribution]

c. 1620

oil on panel

outer size: height 38.8 cm x width 28.6 cm x depth 2 cm

Jonkheer E.L.W.M. Hoeufft van Velsen Bequest, Meeuwen

bequest 1965

Public domain

**For the present painting (SK-A-4774) and five other family portraits (SK-A-4771 to 4773 and SK-A-4775 and 4776)**

? Commissioned by Johan Gerritsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1564-1654); ? his granddaughter, Aegje Hasselaer (1617-64), Amsterdam; ? her son, Gerrit Hooft (1649-1717), Amsterdam; ? his son, Hendrik Hooft (1676-1752), Amsterdam and The Hague; ? his daughter, Suzanna Isabella Hooft (1716-1803), The Hague; ? her son, Hendrik Hoeufft, Lord of Velsen and Santpoort (1747-1823), The Hague and Amsterdam; by descent to Jonkheer Ernest Louis Willy Marc Hoeufft, Lord of Velsen and Santpoort (1903-65), Meeuwen; by whom bequeathed to the museum, 1965{Provenance reconstructed in Ekkart 1985, p. 110, note 7.}

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