A set of six Dutch silver candlesticks by Dirk Evert Grave
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A set of six Dutch silver candlesticks 1789 - 1790

Dirk Evert Grave

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  • About the artwork
    Four large candlesticks:
    Dirk Evert Grave, Amsterdam, 1789

    Two smaller candlesticks:
    Anton Hinrich Pape, Amsterdam, 1790

    These candlesticks were part of the estate of Johannes A.L. van den Bosch (1861-1945) and his first wife Louise Charlotte Rutgers van Rozenburg, who lived at De Hooghe Vuursche in Baarn. Her family, wealthy Amsterdam bankers, had owned De Hooghe Vuursche from 1795 onwards. The Rutgers van Rozenburgs might have commissioned the set of four in Amsterdam and a year later the set of matching but smaller two candlesticks by another Amsterdam silversmith. After the untimely death of his wife J.A.L. van den Bosch married Ernestine Louise van Hardenbroek van Lockhorst and rebuilt his stately home, after it had been broken down in 1908.

    Provenance:
    J.A.L. van de Bosch, De Hooghe Vuursche , Baarn
    Thence by descent

    Associate literature: for similar candlsticks:
    Exhibition catalogue Amsterdam, Willet-Holthuizen: Amsterdams goud en zilver, 1950, nr. 171 (1788)
    J.R. ter Molen, Zilver, Rotterdam, 1994, nr. 118 (1792)
    Hubert Vreeken, De Stavelij, Achttiende-eeuws zilver van het regentengeslacht Van Hoorn in Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 2005, p. 78
    J. R. de Lorm, Amsterdams Goud en Zilver, Zwolle, 1999, p. 506.
  • About the artist
    Dirk Evert Grave was a Dutch silversmith, born in Amsterdam in 1735. He manufactured various tableware items such as teajars, candlesticks, vases, and storage jars with intricate inlays. These were sought out mainly by wealthy Dutch residents who commisioned him to produce pieces for their stately homes in the countryside. He was most active in his late years between 1785 and 1790 before he passed in 1795. His works are now on display in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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