| Dating |
1908 |
| Material / technique |
oil on canvas |
| Dimensions |
117 x 91 cm |
| Literature |
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| Exhibitions |
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| Provenance |
Petrus and Anna Hermans, Weert, the Netherlands |
| Current residence |
Hermans Family, De Steeg, the Netherlands |
| Signature |
b.r. in paint: HRi GOOVAERTS 1908 |
| Headings |
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| Remarks |
As far as we know Henri Goovaerts painted three portraits in the Limburg town of Weert, in the south of the Netherlands, all three of them in the year 1908. The portraits of Anna Maria Fransen (1851-1928) and her husband Petrus Hubertus Hermans (1852-1922) are two of these portraits. The couple belonged to the higher class of Weert. They lived in the monumental building on the Oelemarkt number 10 where the family had a wholesale business in colonial goods, a coffee roastery and a vinegar factory. The third portrait that Goovaerts painted in Weert was a posthumous portrait of Judith Kneepkens, a five-year-old daughter from the silversmith family Esser, who had died in 1908. It is likely that Henri Goovaerts received one portrait assignment through the other. We do not know which of the two assignments was the first. |
