Charles Howard Hodges
(London 1764 – Amsterdam 1837)
a) Hendrik van Stralen (1751 – 1822)
Pastel on paper, 29.1 x 23.7 cm
b) Clasina Rijgerbos (1752 – 1784)
Pastel on paper, 29.5 x 23.6 cm
Provenance:
– J. van Stralen, The Hague
– Private collection
– Auction Neumeister Munich, 24 March 2010, lot 451
– Private collection, The Netherlands
Literature:
A.C.A.W. Baron van der Feltz, Charles Howard Hodges 1764 – 1837, Van
Gorcum Assen, 1982, page 264 & 265, cat.no. 496 & 497 (ill. portrait of Hendrik van Stralen)
Exhibition (portrait of Hendrik van Stralen):
Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, Historische Tentoonstelling 1795 – 1813, 1913, no. 756
N.B.:
Hendrik van Stralen was a royalist statesman in the second half of the eighteenth century. Van Stralen started his career as alderman and mayor of Enkhuizen. In 1805 he was appointed Secretary of State of the Ministery of Interior. In 1813 he was appointed Commisionar General of the Ministery of Interior. He married Clasina Rijgerbos in 1776. The pastels were made circa 1799/1800, when Van Stralen was aged 48 and his wife had already died. Hodges painted her portrait after an older original made at the time of her marriage.
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