Oil on canvas (lined), unsigned, depicting three figures in an upper middle class domestic interior, the seated gentleman holding a copy of "The Bredasche Courant," housed in a period frame. An article published in "De Bredasche Courant" on December 18, 1965 "justify the careful suppositions that on the picture are Petrus Rudolf Broese (1800-1853), printer and publisher of the Bredasche Courant, his wife Catherina Johanna Vierweg and his fourteen year younger brother Jacobus Gerardus Broese, who moved to Utrecht in 1843." (A copy of this newspaper article, along with its English Translation, accompanies the lot.)

SS 15 x 13 in.; DOA 20 x 17.75 in.

Collection of Mr. J. Nanninga Uitterdijk, town archivist of the county Kampen in the Netherlands. Collection of Peggy Sax, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

$600 - 900