Portrait of Pieter Salina

Portrait of Pieter Salina

SK-A-4772

Portret van Pieter Salina, ten halven lijve, staand of knielend naar rechts, bij een tafel waarop hij met beide handen een boek vasthoudt. Rechtsboven het familiewapen. Misschien een kopie door Cornelis Engelsz. naar een onbekende origineel uit ca. 1510/15. Met geïntegreerde lijst. 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, on the reverse, in black paint: ‘Pieter Salina’
• coat of arms, upper right: 1 and 4 divided horizontally; 2 quartered. 1 and 4: a. a silver bridge with three black arches surmounted by three silver turrets on a red ground; b: three silver fleurs-de-lis on a red ground. 2: a and d: a black cauldron on a silver ground; b and c: a gold cross with the ends of the limbs splayed into three points on a red ground. 3: a white dog standing with its forelegs against a green tree on a gold ground. The entire coat is bordered, with a red border with gold points around 1 and 3, and a green border with gold stars around 2 and 4.

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

c. 1620

oil on panel

outer size: height 38.7 cm x width 29.1 cm x thickness 2 cm

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

bequest 1965

Public domain

**For the present painting (SK-A-4772) and five other family portraits (SK-A-4771 and SK-A-4773 to 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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