At Bonham's, you can buy on 14 April 2015 two nice paintings from the Dutch School, 18th century, depicting a vegetable seller and a fruit seller. Combined estimate of £2,000 to £3,000, which is cheap for the quality. UPDATE: not sold.
Strangely, a different (larger) version of the latter one was for sale just last week at Auctionata, estimated at 9,000 Euro (but apparently unsold), and attributed to Jacob Toorenvliet. According to the RKD, it used to have a pendant, but they are no longer together. Could it have the same image as the pendant in our sale here? In any case, I think it is safe to attribute the two paintings for sale as "Circle of Jacob Toorenvliet". The paintings for sale have a rougher finish, but are not worse, just different (e.g. showing the muscles of the woman), and from these pictures I actually prefer the ones for sale now.
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