DONOR PORTRAIT

Description:

DATED 1483
68 x 53 cm
The Virgin with the Child, , flanked by Saint Louis and Saint Margaret with the kneeling donor couple. In both upper corners the donor's crests. Oil/panel, on the margins of the frame inscribed: IOr HENDRICK DV SMET FIs IOOS HEERE IN LEDE Ao 1483 BVRGMr T'AELST IONCVRAUWE MARGRIETE VAN SCHOORISSE FILIA MHER IOORIS.
Old German aristocratic property, in the family since the 19th century, Rimburg Castle near Aachen