Museum Acquisition – Purchased by Stedelijk Museum Breda – 2024

Petrus van Schendel, oil on canvas, signed and dated b.r. 1842, 145 x 116 cm.

This fine duo portrait by the hand of Petrus van Schendel has been acquired by the Stedelijk Museum Breda and will be included in its permanent collection in due course.
The portrait depicts mother and daughter, Antonia Theodora Cornelia Hillegonda Mooijaart (Oct. 10, 1798 – Oct. 30, 1852), wife of William Dennison (1789-1858) and their oldest living daughter Anna Amelia Dennison (Feb. 9, 1825 – Feb. 16, 1912).