Portrait of Floris Mertensz van Alkemade (1510-1572), half-length; and Portrait of Lijsbeth van Hoeuff (b.1521), half-length

AMSTERDAM SCHOOL, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY Portrait of Floris Mertensz van Alkemade (1510-1572), half-length; and Portrait of Lijsbeth van Hoeuff (b.1521), half-length oil on panel 24 x 18 3⁄4 in. (61 x 47.6 cm.) (2)the first inscribed 'Ao. Dñi. 1570 / Æta · 59' (upper right), with his coat-of-arms of a sable lion rampant (upper left); the second inscribed 'Ao. Dñi. 1570 / Æta · 49' (upper right), with her coat-of-arms of a griffin rampant, impaled with her husband’s sable lion rampant (upper left) in the original frames a pair