Lot Essay
After Benson's portrait of Elizabeth Donche formerly in the collection of Mrs. R.H. Booth, Grosse Point, Michigan (G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson, Damme, 1957, pp. 254-5 and 319, no. 141, pl. LXXIII; M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XI, Leiden and Brussels, 1974, p. 101, no. 295, pl. 182), along with a pendant portrait of her husband Cornelis de Scheppere (Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales).