Anthonie Palamedesz. (Delft 1601-1673 Amsterdam)
Anthonie Palamedesz. (Delft 1601-1673 Amsterdam)

Portrait of a richly dressed young man, half-length

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Anthonie Palamedesz. (Delft 1601-1673 Amsterdam)
Portrait of a richly dressed young man, half-length
signed, dated and inscribed 'Æ T: 21 / Ao. 1664 / APalamedes pinxit' ('AP' in ligature, upper right)
oil on canvas
28 ½ x 24 ½ in. (72.4 x 62.2 cm.)
Provenance
El Roy and Helene Master, Berksveldt Farm, Robesonia, PA; their sale (†), Pook and Pook, Downington, PA, 20 June 2009, lot 416.
with Jack Kilgore, New York, where acquired by the present owner in 2009.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 June-8 September 2010, on loan.

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Lot Essay

A gifted painter of guardroom interiors, merry companies, still lifes and portraits, Anthonie Palamedesz. may have studied in Delft with the portrait painters Michiel van Mierevelt and Hendrik Pot. While Palamedesz.'s earlier portraits exude a certain sobriety, in his portraits of the late 1650s and 1660s, the artist displays an awareness of the fashionable and sophisticated imagery of Amsterdam portraitists like Bartholomeus van der Helst. With his right hand on his walking stick and left arm akimbo, the sitter here adopts a pose similar to that which is found in paintings like van der Helst's Portrait of an Officer of 1657 (Chequers Trust, Chequers Court, Ellesborough) and his Portrait of Samuel de Marez (1632-1691) of 1661 (private collection).

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