Lot n° 25
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: 23 000EUR
Tibout REGTERS (Dordrecht 1710 - Amsterdam 1768) - Lot 25
Tibout REGTERS (Dordrecht 1710 - Amsterdam 1768)
Portrait of the family of Jan Carel van der Muelen
Canvas.
Signed lower right and dated under the chair:
"T Regters / pinxit 1761"
98 x 113 cm.
(Small scratches).
Provenance : By family descent.
Private collection, Rotterdam.
Bibliography :
A.Staring: De Hollanders thuis. Gezelschapstukken uit drie eeuwen, The Hague, 1956; p. 134, repr. pl. xxxiv (De familie van Mr Jan Carel van der Muelen, ca. 1760) Mario Praz: Scene di conversazione, Rome, 1971; repr. 215 p. 235, quoted p. 68 (La famiglia di Mr Jan Carel van der Meulen [sic], ca. 1760, Coll. Mr J.A. Grothe van Schellach, Rotterdam) Rudolf E.O. Ekkart: Tibout Regters, schilder van portretten en conversatiestukken (1710-1768), Leiden, 2006, Cat. 73, repr. p. 103 and p. 73, mentioned p. 62 and p.65 (Portret van de familie van der Muelen, ca. 1760/1761, with family provenance from the beginning).
Exhibitions :
[Expo. Rotterdam,Museum Boymans,1946] Cornelis Troost en zijn tijd..., p. 17, no. 64, not repr. (Familiegroep in een interieur. Voorgesteld zijn Mr. Jan Carel van der Muelen, overleden 1801 met zijn echtgenoote Cornelia Constantia Ortt van Nijenrode...met hun vier kinderen ...; canvas, 98 x 114 cm, coll. part) [Expo. London, Allied Circle [etc.], 1947] Dutch conversation pieces of the of the 18th & 19th centuries, intr. by A.Staring, no. 13 [Expo. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1947-1948] Het hollandsche babbelstuk (1730-1850), pref. by A.Staring, Cat. no. 31, not reproduced (De familie van Jan Carel van der Muelen, 98 x 114 cm, Coll. Mr. J.A. Grothe van Schellach, Rotterdam) [Expo. Delft, Museum "Het Prinsenhof", 1953] Kind en spel, Cat. no. 48, reproduced 9 (Portret van Mr. Jan Carel van der Muelen, 98 x 114 cm, Coll. Jan Carel van der Muelen ..., signed T.Regters pinxit 1761, 98 x 114 cm, Coll. Grothe van Schellach-Doude van Troostwijk, Rotterdam) [Expo. Amsterdam,Museum Willet Holthuysen, 1955-1956] Kind en kinderleven, no. 23 [Expo. Amsterdam, Museum Willet Holthuysen,1965] Binnen zonder kloppen in de pruikentijd, Cat. by Clara Bille, no. 29, not reproduced (De familie van Jan Carel van der Meulen [sic], 98 x 114 cm, Coll. Mr J.A. Grothe van Schellach, Rotterdam)
Trained by Jan Maurits Quinkhard in Arnhem and after his beginnings in Rotterdam, Tibout Regters arrived in Amsterdam at the age of twenty-two and remained there until his death. As a draughtsman and painter, he introduces us to the upper middle class of the city, creating individual or group portraits, in an official or family setting. We are here with Jan Carel van der Muelen (?-1801), a Protestant and jurist from a family of Antwerp roots established in Utrecht. His marriage in 1747 to Cornelia Constantia Ortt van Nijenrode gave him the position of "opperboekhouder" at the Wisselbank in Amsterdam, one of the first European deposit banks. Created in 1609, this institution was under the control of the municipality of Amsterdam and was guaranteed by the States of Holland. It had a monopoly on foreign exchange in a city where all the world's wealth was in transit. Active until 1819, it was in a way the first central bank in Holland, with Jan Carel van der Muelen holding a position equivalent to that of president.
He is shown here with his wife Cornelia Constantia Ortt (1727-1775) and their children: Samuel (1754-1809), standing, holds the dog, Constantia Jacoba Josina (?-1807) presents some flowers to her mother, Cornelis Elias (1756 -1812) sits on a sumptuous carpet with his rolling horse while Balthasar Jan Carel (1748-1817) enters with a drawing board under his arm.
In the same year, Tibout Retgers painted another family in a similar interior and in the same format, that of Joan Ortt van Nijenrode (1721-1783), the brother of Cornelia Constancia. He is next to his wife Adriana Huydecoper (1726-1762), surrounded by their children, one of whom is holding a greyhound (see Ekkart cat. 74, repr. p. 104, coll. part., deposited at Nijenrode Castle, Breukelen).
These two paintings are listed in the RKD (IB0003924 and IB00047950, private collection).
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