Epiphyllum Marten and Oopje

Early 2016 the two Rembrandt portraits were bought together by the Netherlands and France, a unique event. From 2 July to 2 October 2016 Marten & Oopjen will have a place of honour alongside The Night Watch. The paintings will then be restored at the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt painted the marriage portraits of the newly-weds Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in Amsterdam in 1634, when he was twenty-eight. The portraits, more than two metres high, remained in private hands for almost four centuries.

Rembrandt painted the portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in Amsterdam in 1634 when he was twenty-eight. The meticulous rendering of the opulent costumes, the vitality of the figures and the subtle use of light in these paintings place them among his greatest masterpieces. The portraits are also a milestone in Dutch history, marking the rise of the ambitious young Dutch Republic in the Golden Age. The fact that these two citizens of Amsterdam posed for their portraits in regal style, wearing the most magnificent outfits in the latest French fashion, says much about their pride and affluence and about the emergence and pretensions of the young republic. Until then life-sized portraits of people standing were the prerogative of monarchs and the nobility. They were Rembrandt’s first life-sized, full-length painted pendant portraits – and the only ones he would ever make.

Offered is here the special named Epiphyllum  ´Marten and Oopje, a hybrid from Frank Süpplie/van der Hoff, a n Epiphyllum master grower of Epiphyllum for more then 40 years.

This special hybrid is a cross between ´Jerommeke´x ´Harlekin´ Harlekin is a large flowering hybrid and ´Jerommeke´is a small one, with Nopalxochia phyllantoides as one of the parents but has no spots on the leaves.

The flower of ´Marten and Oopje´ is about 15cm diameter. It was sown out in 2006 and named in 2016. It’s a vigorous flowering hybrid and grows as a basket type with smaller phylloclades. Offered for two months only and as long we have it in stock. Then it will be unavailable for at least one year.