Lot Essay
The sitter was one of the three sculptors portrayed in van Dyck's series of engravings of contemporary artists. The present painting is a copy after a print from that series.
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MS. HERTHA KATZ
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Hubert van den Eynden, small bust length in a brown coat and linen collar
Details
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Hubert van den Eynden, small bust length in a brown coat and linen collar
oil on paper laid down on canvas
7½ x 55/8 in. (19 x 14.2 cm.)
Portrait of Hubert van den Eynden, small bust length in a brown coat and linen collar
oil on paper laid down on canvas
7½ x 55/8 in. (19 x 14.2 cm.)
Provenance
with Schäffer Gallery, Berlin, 1930, at which time the authenticity was confirmed by Gustav Glück and Ludwig Burchard.
Anon. Sale, Mandelbaum and Kronthal, Berlin, 6 November 1935, lot 185a.
Anon. Sale, Mandelbaum and Kronthal, Berlin, 6 November 1935, lot 185a.
Literature
C. Depauw and G. Luijten, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Anthony van Dyck as a printmaker, Antwerp, 1999, pp. 190-191, fig. 2, as whereabouts unknown, by an anonymous follower of van Dyck.