LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.28 in. (107.40 cm.) (height) by 34.25 in. (87.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Rembrandt 1658' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1847, no. 45, as 'A Dutch Admiral'. New York, Masterpieces of Art, May-October 1939, no. 304. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, 18 November-31 December 1947, no. XXVIII. Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Rembrandt and his Pupils, 16 November-30 December 1956, no. 29. Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, An Inaugural Exhibition, 12 September-20 October 1957, no. 17. New York, Gallery of Modern Art (Huntington Hartford Museum), 23 August-9 September 1964. Chicago, The Art Institute; Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years - An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, 25 October 1969-5 April 1970, no. 13.

Literature:

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, London, 1916, p. 381, no. 827a, as 'A Dutch Admiral'. T. Borenius, 'The New Rembrandt', The Burlington Magazine, LVII, no. 32, August 1930, pp. 55-9, illustrated. A.M. Frankfurter, ed. The Antiquarian, XV, November 1930, no. 5, p. 76, and cover illustration. W.R. Valentiner, 'Rediscovered Rembrandt Paintings', The Burlington Magazine, LVII, no. 33, December 1930, p. 260. W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt Paintings in America, New York, 1931, pl. 138. A. Bredius, The Paintings of Rembrandt, Vienna, 1935, p. 12, pl. 290. W.R. Valentiner, catalogue of the exhibition, European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800; Masterpieces of Art, New York, 1939, p. 148, no. 304. W.R. Valentiner, catalogue of the exhibition, Rembrandt and his Pupils, Raleigh, 1956, p. 22, no. 29, where suggested that the sitter might be the lawyer Louis Craeyers. 'A little known Rembrandt on view', The New York Times, 23 August 1964. K. Bauch, Rembrandt Gemälde, Berlin, 1966, p. 22, no. 421, illustrated. H. Gerson, Rembrandt Paintings, New York, 1968, pp. 406, 501, no. 342. A. Bredius, Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of Paintings, revised by H. Gerson, Vienna, 1969, p. 222, no. 290, illustrated, pp. 572, 632. G. Arpino, L'opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt, Milan, 1969, p. 119, no. 367, illustrated. 'A Portrait by Rembrandt Quietly Sold by Columbia', The New York Times, 4 January 1975. J. Bolten and H. Bolten-Rempt, The Hidden Rembrandt, Chicago, 1977, p. 199, no. 483, illustrated. C. Brown, Rembrandt: Every Painting, New York, 1980, II, p. 66, no. 333, p. 68, illustrated. C. Tümpel, Rembrandt - All paintings in colour, Antwerp, 1993, p. 432, no. A93, illustrated, as 'Rembrandt Circle'.

Provenance:

George Folliott (1801-1851), Vicars Cross, Chester, by 1847, and by descent to his grandson James Folliott Folinsby Walker; sale, [The Property of the Late George Folliott], Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1930, lot 51 'So far as can be traced this is an entirely unrecorded portrait by Rembrandt, painted according to the date inscribed on it during the very late period of his career so valued by collectors', (£18,500 to Asscher and Welker). with Asscher and Welker, London, 1930. with Howard Young Galleries, New York, 1931. George Huntington Hartford II (1911-2008), by 1939, by whom presented in 1958 to. Columbia University, New York. Sold in 1974 by Columbia University to. Harold Diamond, Inc., New York, from whom acquired by the present owner in the same year.