Live auction - Lot 7
[Flemish school]
Jacques d'Acquilo.
18th c
Hammer price: €
480
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Oil on canvas, 57,0 x 43,2 cm (few retouchings).
Framed.
Charming portrait with the coat of arms of the d'Acquilo family from Bruges. Probably Jacques d'Acquilo (1683-1757), who served as captain in the army of Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and as dean of Bruges. A portrait of his ancestor is in Bruges (Musea Brugge, inv. O.SJ0129.I).
Ref. F. Van Dycke, Recueil héraldique avec des notices généalogiques et historiques sur un grand nombre de familles nobles et patriciennes de la ville et du franconat de Bruges, Bruges, 1851, p. 2, n. 3.