Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 17th Century.
This is a very fine painting of the Dutch Golden Age of portraiture.
Anna sits by an open window overlooking a garden and its Classically styled summer house; in her lap is an expensive silk scarf showing she has either just entered from outside or is about to go out. Women of this period always covered their hair when outside. The scarf is beautifully painted, showing the silk to be so fine that one can see the dress through it.
It is also noteworthy how well painted are the hands .. a notoriously difficult subject for many portraitists. The flowers, as well as signifying the garden outside are also a sign of the sitter's youth and beauty, plus a reminder that youth and beauty, like flowers, quickly fade.
PIETER VAN LINT or Peter van Lint (1609–1690) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries. He excelled in history paintings, genre scenes and portraits in the Flemish Baroque style with some Classicizing influence. He worked in Antwerp and Italy.
He was born in Antwerp where he trained under Artus Wolffort. During his training he frequently visited Antwerp's churches to copy the paintings of his contemporaries such as Peter Paul Rubens as well as those of earlier generations such as Marten de Vos and the Francken brothers.
Van Lint become a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp in1633. In that same year he travelled to Rome where he remained until 1640. In Rome he worked for Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, Bishop of Ostia, who employed him to decorate the local cathedral. Van Lint also frescoed the Cybo family chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo with the Legend of the True Cross in 1636–40.
SIZE: 51 x 42.5 inches framed.
PROVENANCE: Private Collection, a family with property in London and in Dorset. The painting was appraised and valued by Christie's in 1985, when it was kept in the London house at Cadogan Square.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 17th Century.
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Portrait of Anna Maria Schumann C.1630, by Pieter Van Lint.
