Portrait of Gerard Schaep van Cortenhoeff, Bartholomeus Eggers (attributed to), c. 1663 - c. 1666

Commissioned by the sitter, c. 1663-66, and placed in a side-room of his house at the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam; by inheritance to (Johanna) Margaretha Schaep (1630-1674), Middelburg;{F. Scholten, ‘Quellinus’s Burgomasters: A Portrait Gallery of Amsterdam Republicanism’, _Simiolus_ 32 (2006), pp. 87-125, esp. notes 83 and 84. She was the daughter of a first cousin of the sitter, the Amsterdam diplomat and regent Gerard Pietersz Schaep (1599-1655), and she was married to Johan Honigh (1629-1692), councillor of Middelburg.} …; donated by Vice-Admiral Gerrit Verdooren van Asperen (1757-1824) to the Zeeuws Genootschap, Middelburg, 4 February 1807; from which, on loan to the museum, since 2012

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