An Independent Eye: Property from Jack Kilgore & Co.
Jean François Portaels
Study of a Head of a Bearded Man
No reserve
Auction Closed
May 22, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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An Independent Eye: Property from Jack Kilgore & Co.
Jean François Portaels
Belgian 1818 - 1895
Study of a Head of a Bearded Man
indistinctly signed and inscribed lower left: J Portaels Rome ; further inscribed and dated upper right: Gaetano mon ... a Rome / 1845 ...
oil on canvas
canvas: 13 ½ by 10 in.; 34.3 by 25.4 cm
framed: 17 ¾ by 14 ½ in.; 45 by 37 cm
Private Collection, France
Sale: Christophe Joron-Derem, 8 November 2006, lot 19
Total gallery cost: $6,800
This delightful study of a bearded man is an unfinished portrait of a man employed by the artist, as identified in the inscription at upper right, which he realized in 1845 in Rome. Having first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under François-Joseph Navez, whose daughter he later married, Portaels then worked under Paul Delaroche in Paris where he won the Prix de Rome in 1842. He traveled extensively in Italy, North Africa, Spain, Hungary, and Norway. He held professorial positions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and Brussels where he was appointed Director in 1878 until his death in 1895.