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Illustris Generosus Dominus d. Hieronymus van Beverningk...
[Nicholaes] Maes pinxit.
A. Blooteling fecit et ex. cum Privilegio.
Mezzotint with engraved text. 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12¼"). Repaired tear, laid on card.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Hieronymus van Beverningh (1614-90), Dutch regent and diplomat who negotiated the treaties that ended all three Anglo-Dutch wars of the 17th century. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Hollstein 148, Le Blanc 105.
[Ref: 64817] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Illustris Generosus Dominus d. Hieronymus van Beverningk...
[Nicholaes] Maes pinxit.
A. Blooteling fecit et ex. cum Privilegio.
Fine mezzotint with engraved text, 17th century wartermark, laid on album sheet. 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12¼"). Narrow margins.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of Hieronymus van Beverningh (1614-90), Dutch regent and diplomat who negotiated the treaties that ended all three Anglo-Dutch wars of the 17th century. Hollstein 148, Le Blanc 105.
[Ref: 64818] £360.00
[Charles V, Duke of Lorraine] Carolus V Dei Gratia Lotharingiæ Barri: Dux.
B.A. delineavit:
A. Blooteling fecit et Excudit Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae [n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 355 x 260mm (14 x 16¼"), very large margins. Repaired tear entering image on right, some creasing.
Charles V (1643-90), Duke of Lorraine but not allowed to rule, as Lorraine was under French occupation during his lifetime. He entered Habsburg service, becoming one of their most successful generals, defeating the Turks at the Siege of Vienna, 1683. He died suddenly in 1690. According to Voltaire, Louis XIV paid tribute to him with the words "I have lost the greatest, wisest and most generous of my enemies". Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Not recorded in Le Blanc.
[Ref: 64805] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
Cornelis de Wit, Ruward van dwn Lande van Putten & C.
J. de Bane pinxit. A Blooteling fecit.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"), large margins.. Some creasing.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of Dutch naval officer and statesman Cornelis de Witt (1623-72), with long wavy hair, cravat and sash. He and his brother Johann were lynched after trumped-up charges of treason. The portrait is a detail from a three-quarter portrait by Jan de Baen, with a scene of the 1667 Dutch raid on the Medway in the background, now in the Dordrechts Museum (DM/895/378). Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64779] £320.00
Cornelis de Wit, Ruward van dwn Lande van Putten & C.
J. de Bane pinxit. A Blooteling fecit.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Small margins.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of Dutch naval officer and statesman Cornelis de Witt (1623-72), with long wavy hair, cravat and sash. He and his brother Johann were lynched after trumped-up charges of treason. The portrait is a detail from a three-quarter portrait by Jan de Baen, with a scene of the 1667 Dutch raid on the Medway in the background, now in the Dordrechts Museum (DM/895/378). Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64777] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Joan de Wit, Raet Pensionaris van Holland & C.
J. de Bane pinxit. A Blooteling fecit.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of Dutch statesman Johann de Witt (1625-72), with long wavy hair and cravat and gown. He and his brother Cornelis were lynched after trumped-up charges of treason. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64778] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Christiaan Huygens the Elder] Christianus. Hugenius. Celsiss. Arusion. Principi. Guielmo. I. et. Postea . Consil. Status Foeder. Belgii. a. Secretis.
A. Blooteling Fecit et ex Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollaniae et West-frisie [n.d., c.1680].
Fine mezzotint. 350 x 260mm (13¾ x 10¼"), large margins. Ink collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (Lugt L151) on reverse.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of Christiaan Huygens the Elder (1551-1624) who served William the Silent until the latter's assassination in 1584, when he became secretary to the Council of State that oversaw the newly formed United Provinces of the Netherlands. His grandson, also Christiaan Huygens, invented the pendulum clock in 1657. Ex: Collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd; & Alfred Morrison (1821-97), sold at Sothebys 1919-21, Wessely 25; Le Blanc 140.
[Ref: 64800] £320.00
Leopoldus I. D.G. Electus Rom: Imperator Semp: August: Germaniae, Hungariae, Bohemiae Etc Rex.
C. Morad [Benjamin von Block?] Pinxit.
A. Blooteling fecit et Excudit Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae [n.d., c.1680].
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed into image.
A head and shoulders portrait of Leopold I (1640-1705), in armour, wearing armour, cravat and collar of the Golden Fleece. The artist 'Morad' is unidentified. The composition is very similar to the three-quarter portrait of Leopold by Benjamin von Block in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (acc. GG_6745).
[Ref: 64799] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
His Excellency Peter John Potemkin Ambass.or Extraordinary from the Czar of Moscovy to his Ma.tie of great Brittain. 1682.
G. Kneller pinx. AB [Abraham Blooteling] fe:
[n.d., c.1682.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 185 x 140mm (7¼ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (1617-1700) who served as ambassador in Europe for Tsars Alexis I and Feodor III. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64775] £320.00
Sciographia Templi Fortvnæ Præneste.
Petrus Berettin Cort.s delin. Hoc obsequij monimentum Dominicus Castellus D.D.C.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 405 x 310mm (16 x 12¼"), very large margins.
A plan of the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia was an ancient Roman temple within the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, a religious complex in Praeneste (now Palestrina, 35 km (22 mi) east of Rome). It was founded in 204 BC by Publius Sempronius Tuditanus and dedicated to the goddess Fortuna Primigenia, the exact meaning of whose name is unclear. Parents brought their newly-born first child to the temple in order to improve its likelihood of surviving infancy and perpetuating the gens.
[Ref: 65292] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Cornelius Trump Kt. Baronet Leiutenant Admirall of Holland and Freezland. [&] [Counterproof]
P. Lelly Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street [n.d. c.1690].
Pair of mezzotints. Sheet 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9½"), with 17th century watermark. Trimmed and tipped into album sheets. Taped into mounts at tops. Counterproof slight damage bottom right.
Cornelis Tromp (1629-91), Lieutenant Admiral General and Admiral General in the Dutch Navy. Tromp fought in the three Anglo-Dutch Wars, distinguishing himself particularly in the Battle of Schooneveld and Battle of Texel (1673). He also served in the Scanian War, in which Denmark sought unsuccessfully to recover lands recently ceded to Sweden. Engraved after a portrait by the Dutch portrait painter and collector Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), painted around 1675 and now in London's National Maritime Museum. Collection of John Chaloner-Smith. Turner B49. II of II.
[Ref: 64825] £1,000.00
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