Beschreibung
The present collection of family and heraldic documents centers on the Dutchde la Courtfamily. The largest part dates back to the 18th century, with a few more recent items dating back to around 1840. It thus covers a century of the de la Court family's history. The collections contains: - 24 portrait drawings (18th c.) - 23 colored coat of arms drawings (various sizes) (mostly 18th c.) - a family crest (18th c.) - 4 family trees (2 with colored coats of arms) (18th c.) - a colored genealogical drawing on vellum from c. 1840 - a large gouache of the tomb of Adriana Petronella de la Court (18th c.) - 4 (2 signed) larger portrait drawings by August Christian Hauck (1742 1801) (d. 1774) Most probably this collection was started on behalf of Allard de la Court (1688-1755) or Catharina Backer (1690-1766) and afterwards continued by their descendants. The 24 smaller portrait drawings are ancestors of Allard and his wife Catharina of which 17 are modeled after the more renownedAlbum Backerwhich is to be found in the city archives in Amsterdam and contains portraits of members of the Backer family. TheAlbum Backerwas made on the commission of Willem Backer Cornelisz (1656-1731) and contains over 150 portraits of members of their family. It is noteworthy that the 7 portrait drawings that are not in the album Backer are ancestors of Sara Poelaert, the mother of Allard de la Court. The portrait of Sara Poelaert contains the date of death, March 17, 1740, in contemporary handwriting. The deaths of Catharina Backer ( 1766) and Allard de la Court ( 1755) were entered retrospectively. The portrait drawings were, therefore, made between 1740 and 1755 while Allard de la Court and his wife Catharina were still alive. According to a handwritten note on one of the family trees of Catharina Backer and Allard de la Court, shortly after the death of Catharina's father Willem Backer, various documents and genealogical records from the property of Catharina's brother Cornelis and his wife were given to her. Willem Backer was a lawyer and art collector and the author or client for the Album Backer. He married Magdalena de la Court, daughter of Pieter de la Court, successful Dutch economist and businessman, with whom he had 4 children. Willem was not interested in politics at all and chose to devote his time to studying his family's history. Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) was commissioned to paint portraits of him and his wife; furthermore, Jan van Mieris (1660-1690) painted a modernized portrait of his grandfather, Willem Backer (1595-1652), and did some copies of portraits of his father and father-in-law, Pieter de la Court (1618-1685). Willem Backer's attempts at diligently collecting and documenting his family's history have become somewhat of a family endeavor, which has been continued by the next generation. We can deduce the importance of this for the family's members, from the legal battle that occurred in 1731 between the two families, Backer and de la Court for Willem Backer's inheritance. In this context, the portrait drawings of the ancestors of Catharina Backer and the parents and grandparents on her father's side were copied from theAlbum Backerand later supplemented with portraits of the ancestors of Allard de la Court's mother. Catharina Backer (1689-1766) married the merchant and art collector Allard de la Court (1688-1755), her cousin. Catharina received a very unusual, comprehensive education in her family. She was brought up around art, surrounded by the numerous pieces of art in her father's collection. She has received training in painting since an early age and got to be quite an accomplished, albeit amateur artist, the only one in her family to have compiled a collection of works of art. Her parents had hoped that Catharina's art lessons would distract her and alleviate her depressive tendencies known asmelancholyat the time. Her father, in his letters to her, often expressed concern about his daughter's emotional state. Catharina. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 212592
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