Frans Hals and his workshop

RKD STUDIES

D24 - D32


D24 Wybrand Hendriks, Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, c. 18001

Watercolor on paper, 250 x 212 mm, monogram and inscription in verso: WHS / Jacob Pietersz. olijcan geschildert door F: Hals
Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, inv.no. NL-HlmNHA_53104037_K
Pendant to D25

This watercolor depicts the condition of the Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan [1] after it had been reworked – probably as a result of having suffered damage. It only was cleaned for the first time in 1996.


D24

D25


1
Frans Hals (I) and workshop
Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, c. 1634-1635
panel, oil paint, 68 x 56.6 cm
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, inv.no. OS-2004-39
cat.no. A3.25

2
Attributed to Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck
Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Vooght
panel, oil paint, 68.5 x 57.8 cm
Sale New York (Sotheby’s), 6 June 2012, lot 36
cat.no. A3.33a


D25 Wybrand Hendriks, Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Vooght, c. 18002

Watercolor on paper, c. 250 x 212 mm, inscription in verso: Maria Classje Voogdt vrouw van J.P. olijcan Geschildert door f: Hals – Hendriks fec.
Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, inv.no. NL-HlmNHA_1100_53014038
Pendant to D24

This watercolor was most probably based on the bust-length Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Vooght [2], which can be attributed to Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (1600/1603-1662).


D26 Wybrand Hendriks, Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, ca. 1785-18203

Pencil, pen and brush in black and grey on paper, 327 x 242 mm
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv.no. RP-T-1910-52
Pendant to D27


D26

D27


3
Frans Hals (I) and workshop
Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, 1639
canvas, oil paint, 111.1 x 86.7 cm
Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, inv.no. SN251
cat.no. A3.32
© Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida

4
Frans Hals (I) and workshop
Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Vooght, 1639
canvas, oil paint, 126.4 x 93.2 cm
upper left: AETAT SVAE 62/AN° 1639
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv.no. SK-C 139
cat.no. A3.33


D27 Wybrand Hendriks, Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Vooght, ca. 1785-18204

Pencil, pen and brush in black and grey on paper, 325 x 240 mm
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv.no. RP-T-1910-53
Pendant to D26

Copies after the painted portraits in Sarasota [3] and Amsterdam [4]. The family coats-of-arms that are visible in the paintings, have not been included in these drawn copies. This proves that the coats-of-arms have been added at a later date, just like in the 1625 Portrait of Jacob Pietersz. Olycan (A1.17), in which the coat-of-arms proved to contain Prussian Blue pigments.5 Also in the painted bust-length versions of the portraits (A3.25, A3.33a), a coat-of-arms had been added at a later date, and was again removed during more recent restoration.6


D28 Wybrand Hendriks, Officers and sergeants of the St. George civic guard, 1796

Brush in grey, brown and watercolour, 304 x 597 mm, signed and dated in verso: W:d Hendriks. fecit / 1796
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, inv.no. TA 10536

Wybrand Hendriks (1744-1831) created this copy after Hals’s painting [5] in 1796.

D28

5
Frans Hals (I), his workshop and Cornelis Symonsz. van der Schalcke
Officers and sergeants of the St George civic guard, 1639
canvas, oil paint, 218 x 421 cm
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, inv.no. OS I-113
cat.no. A2.12


D29 Wybrand Hendriks, Identification sheet of Officers and sergeants of the St. George civic guard

Pencil, pen and brush in grey on paper, 209 x 539 mm
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, inv.no. TA 15725

This drawing identifies the portrayed men in the 1639 group portrait of the officers and sergeants of the St. George civic guard [5]. Wybrand Hendriks (1744-1831) would have created this with help of a nameplate that originally was attached to the frame of the painting.7

D29


D30 Wybrand Hendriks, Regents of St. Elisabeth’s Hospital, 1787

Watercolor on paper, 348 x 548 mm, signed and dated in verso: Frans Hals Pinx . 1641 / W:d Hendriks. fecit. 1787
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, inv.no. TA 10539

When Wybrand Hendriks (1744-1831) made this copy, Hals’s painting that served as the example [6], was still on display in the St. Elisabeth’s Hospital in Haarlem.

D30

6
Frans Hals (I)
Regents of St Elisabeth’s Hospital, c. 1640-1641
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, inv./cat.nr. OS I-114
cat.no. A1.102


D31 Wybrand Hendriks, Regents of St. Elisabeth’s Hospital

Pen, brush and washed in grey on paper, 199 x 343 mm, signed in verso: WHs F.
Haarlem, Noord-Hollands Archief, inv.no. NL-HlmNHA_53002814

This is a black-and-white drawing after the 1641 group portrait by Hals [6].

D31


D32 Wybrand Hendriks, Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse, c. 1780-18208

Pencil and watercolor on paper, 385 x 568 mm
Haarlem, Teylers Museum, inv.no. W 045

This is a copy after the painted group portrait of the regents of the Oudemannenhuis of 1663-1664 [7]. On this sheet, the curtain hanging from the upper left is visible, whereas the narrow landscape view in the right-hand side background of the painting is not. The three-dimensional modelling of the bodies in the black silk fabrics, which seems almost flat today in the painting, is conceivable. There is also the compositional element of the large black hats, which in the painting have sunk into the background.

D32

7
Frans Hals (I) and workshop, probably Frans Hals (II)
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse In Haarlem, c. 1663-1664
canvas, oil paint, 172.3 x 256 cm
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, inv.no. OS I-115
cat.no. A3.62


Notes

1 Biesboer/Bijl 2006, p. 11-12.

2 On the basis of the proposed date of the pendant.

3 Haarlem 2023, no. 105.

4 Haarlem 2023, no. 106.

5 Washington/Haarlem/London 1989-1990, p. 121, 181.

6 In the female portrait, this removal happened prior to the sale of 2012.

7 Oud/Van Oosterzee/Wiggers 1999, no. 76.

8 Haarlem 2023, no. 109.

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