Frans Hals - Portret van Lucas de Clercq - SA 7322 - Amsterdam Museum

Frans Hals - Feyntje van Steenkiste - WGA11127

Lucas de Clercq (1603 – 1652), was a Dutch cloth merchant known today for his and his wife's pendant marriage portraits painted by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

Biography

He was born in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

as the son of a wealthy Mennonite family from Rumbeeke.Collections of paintings in Haarlem, 1572-1745
by P Biesboer; Carol Togneri, Los Angeles, Getty Provenance Index, Getty Research Institute, 2001 He became a merchant who dealt in potash, an ingredient used in the

bleaching industry for linens and linen yarn. He married the daughter of his supplier, Feyntje Steenkiste and nine years after they married, Hals won the commission for their portraits. In 1638 they moved to a large house at the corner of the Berckenrodesteeg and the Spaarne street, near the central weigh house. De Clercq also owned the estate "Clercq & Beeck" in

Overveen Overveen is a village in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Bloemendaal. Overveen lies on the eastern fringe of the North Sea dunes. To the east it borders the built-up areas of Haarlem. A few kilometres to the west of the ...

. Feyntje died in 1640 and De Clercq remarried Adriaentgen Keyser in 1645. A painting by

Dirck Bleker Dirck Bleker (1621 in Haarlem – 1702 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he painted a Danae for the ''Lord of Halsteren, Baljuw of Kennemerland'', that was made famous by a poem by Joost van den ...

of the two of them with their children from their first marriages is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum. Both the portrait of Lucas de Clercq and his wife Feyntje or Feyna remained in the De Clercq family for several generations, and were hanging in their

buitenplaats A buitenplaats (literally "outside place") was a summer residence for rich townspeople in the Netherlands. During the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, many traders and city administrators in Dutch towns became very wealthy. Many of them bough ...

called "Vredelust aan 't Geyn" in 1885.Lucas de Clercq
in the RKDFeyna van Steenkiste
in the RKD These portraits are among the earliest acquisitions of the

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...

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Lucas de Clercq
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Portrait of Lucas with his second wife in the Amsterdam Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clercq, Lucas de 1603 births 1652 deaths People from Haarlem Businesspeople from Haarlem Dutch merchants

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