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Tibout Regters artwork • painting • previously for sale Merchant and banker Gijsbrecht Antwerpen Verbrugge van Freyhoff, his wife Maria Hooft, the bookkeeper and a black servant

Regters T.  | Tibout Regters, Merchant and banker Gijsbrecht Antwerpen Verbrugge van Freyhoff, his wife Maria Hooft, the bookkeeper and a black servant, oil on canvas 68.0 x 82.7 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1750

Tibout Regters

Merchant and banker Gijsbrecht Antwerpen Verbrugge van Freyhoff, his wife Maria Hooft, the bookkeeper and a black servant
oil on canvas 68.0 x 82.7 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1750

This painting was previously for sale.

Provenance: wellicht vererfd via de zuster van G.A. Verbrugge, Susanna Christina Verbrugge, echtgenote van Albert van Heyningen, en haar dochter Elisabeth van Heyningen, echtgenote van Dirk Luden, op de familie Luden; collectie mevrouw J. Luden-Bloemen, Amsterdam en uit haar nalatenschap in 1914 verkocht; coll. W.C. Smidt van Gelder, Aerdenhout, inv.nr. 261; veiling Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 'Collectie Smidt van Gelder', 25 nov. 1958, lotnr. 22 (met afb.); Kunsthandel A. Staal, Amsterdam, 1958; part. bezit België.
Literature: C.P. van Eeghen, 'Jacob Cats en de Husleys als decorateurs van het huis Heerengracht 310', 'Jaarboek Amstelodamum' 38 (1941), pag. 144; C.W. Fock (red.), 'Het Nederlandse interieur in beeld 1600-1900', Zwolle 2001, pag. 255 (met afb. 219); Rudi Ekkart, 'Tibout Regters. Schilder van portretten en conversatiestukken 1710-1768', Leiden 2006, pag. 33, pag. 36, afb. 22, pag. 84, cat.nr. 20 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 'Tibout Regters - Het gezicht van de 18de eeuw', 18 febr.-28 mei 2006.

Tibout Regters' oeuvre mainly consists of group portraits of families. He specialized in these so-called conversation pieces, a new genre in the 18th century. His clients included wealthy Amsterdammers, often Mennonites. One of them was the merchant and banker Gijsbert Antwerpen Verbrugge (1717-1777). In 1750, Regters painted this refined portrait of Verbrugge, his wife Maria Hooft, his bookkeeper and a servant. When Regters painted this work, he was just starting to break through as a portraitist. Characteristic of his early group portraits is the regular way in which the figures are distributed over the picture plane and grouped around the table. The background is quite austere and the view through the window is limited. The floor mats with decorative block patterns, which were very popular as floor coverings in the 17th and 18th centuries, are a striking detail for this reason.


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