6 gouaches with heraldic decoration signed Horst genealogy with coats of arms by Joan Loten th. 18th

Set of 6 gouaches with heraldic decoration, 18th century
The last of the set is dated and signed H. Horst 1751 (below a cartouche)
Some gouaches are decorated on the edges with 16 coats of arms on either side of the central coat of arms
Entirely hand painted with extreme finesse worthy of a miniaturist
Coat of arms with swans, griffins, shields with thistles, sheep and fleur-de-lys....
In the center large coat of arms of the family of Joan Gideon Loten
One is dated October 26, 1733, another December 8, 1689
Very good general condition, very slight wear
Rare documents from a family from the Netherlands
Superb quality of execution
Very fresh colors: royal blue and soft green...
Leaf gilding
Letters in Chinese ink
Framed in a mahogany frame for some
20th century framing made by Gerbrands in Utrecht
2 Views: h: 53.3 cm width: 35 cm
2 Frames h: 66.2 cm width: 48 cm
1 View: 44.6 x 36.5 cm
1 frame: 57.7 x 49.6 cm
1 view: 38.5 x 29 cm
1 frame: 46.5 x 37 cm
1 view: 37.4 x 26.5 cm
1 frame: 43.4 x 32.6 cm
1 view: 27.5 x 37.5 cm
1 frame: 33 x 43.5 cm
More photos available on request
For information :
Joan Gideon Loten (born May 16, 1710 – died February 25, 1789) was a Dutch colonial administrator and naturalist, governor of Dutch Ceylon from 1752 to 1757.
He studied at Utrecht University and arrived in India in 1732 as a member of the Dutch East India Company.
First Governor of Makassar (1744-1750), he was appointed Governor of Batavia, Ceylon and the Celebes archipelago on September 10, 1752, a position he held until March 17, 1757.
In Colombo, he collected numerous zoological and botanical specimens which Pieter Cornelius de Bevere and Peter Brown painted and drew, a collection which was later entrusted to the Natural History Museum in London.
Returning to the Netherlands in 1758, he settled in London in 1759 where he remained for twenty-two years but had to leave the country in 1781 after the outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch wars. He then resettled in Utrecht where he ended his life.
He was buried in Jacobikerk and a monument in his honor was erected by Thomas Bank in 1795 in Westminster Abbey.
A species of bird bears his name: the Loten Sunbird.
An inventory of his natural history drawings is in the London Natural History Museum and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem – to this day a valuable treasure of 18th-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

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