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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
ABRAHAM WILLEMSEN | The Visitation
Lot Closed
September 19, 03:04 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
ABRAHAM WILLEMSEN
? 1605/10 – 1672 Antwerp
THE VISITATION
signed lower left: A.W.IN.F.
oil on copper
unframed: 60.1 x 79.3 cm.; 23¾ x 31¼ in.
framed: 84.5 x 103.2 cm.; 33¼x 40⅝ in.
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Anonymous sale, Munich, Neumeister, 24 March 1999, lot 455 (as Artus Wolfaerts), where acquired.
A. Blankert et al, Jezus in de Gouden Eeuw, exh. cat., Zwolle and Rotterdam 2000, p. 56, reproduced in colour;
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 492-95, cat. no. 85, reproduced in colour.
Little is known about Willemsen's career; he is recorded as an apprentice to Gilliam Antonissens in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1627/8, and himself took on two apprentices in 1651/2 and 1654/5. Elected dean of Antwerp's Oude Voetboogh Guild, Willemsen died in Antwerp in 1672.