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Lot 60
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Barent Graat

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Barent Graat
  • Portrait of an young gentleman, standing by a sundial in a formal garden
  • signed and dated lower left: B. Graat F/ 1665?
  • oil on canvas, unframed

Provenance

Sir Robert Gresley, Drakelowe (according to an old label in the reverse);
With Old Master Galleries (Wengraf), London, 1964 (according to Witt library mount);
Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1965;
George Encil, Vienna and the Bahamas.

Exhibited

Delft, XVIIe Oude Kunst-en Antiekbeurs, 1965.

Literature

E. Reznicek in Experience and Adventures of a Collector, 1989, pp. 140-1.

Condition

The canvas has a firm relining. The paint surface is secure if a little flattened by the aforementioned lining and appears to be otherwise in good condition under a yellowed varnish. Inspection under UV light reveals minor scattered retouchings throughout. Offered unframed.
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