Hercules Sanders
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length, wearing black with a lace collar and cuffs, a black hat with a white feather, and a sword
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:56 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Hercules Sanders
Amsterdam 1606 - after 1673
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter length, wearing black with a lace collar and cuffs, a black hat with a white feather, and a sword
oil on canvas
unframed: 121.1 x 89.2 cm.; 47⅝ x 35⅛ in.
framed: 133.2 x 101.4 cm.; 52½ x 39⅞ in.
We are grateful to Dr Fred G. Meijer for proposing the attribution to Sanders on the basis of digital images. This portrait may be compared to Sanders' signed and dated works of 1640, including the Portrait of a gentleman recently sold at Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, in which the execution of the sitter's face is highly comparable, as is the depiction of the wide, flat lace collar and the man's pose.1 The rather distinctive treatment of the sitter's hands here is also reminiscent of those in Sanders' Portrait of a girl, likewise dated 1640, last with William Doyle Galleries, New York,2 and the later Portrait of a lady, dated 1651, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.3