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Lot 105
  • 105

Monogrammist GR Probably active in Nuremberg circa 1556 - 1563

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Description

  • Monogrammist GR
  • a portrait of a nobleman, bust length, wearing a doublet and a white lace collar
  • signed in monogram and dated upper left: GR (in compendium) /ANNO 1556.
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Mr. Coray-Stoop, Erlenbach-Zurich;
By whose Estate sold, Luzern, Fischer, 29 July 1925, lot 61, when bought back on behalf of/by a family member;
Her descendant Stoop, Bloemendaal
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Catalogue Note

This unidentified artist appears to have been active in the town of Nuremberg in the early 1560s (see G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten..., vol. III, Munich 1863, p. 88). Another portrait by this artist, dated 1563, is in the townhall of Nuremberg. Friedländer attributed this portrait to Anthonis Mor (1519-1575), according to a note in the R.K.D.