JOHANN SPILBERG THE YOUNGER | Portrait of a lady, half-length, in imaginary costume

With Knoedler, New York (as G. Flinck);

Private collection, Switzerland;

With S. Nystad, The Hague, by 1983;

With Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, by 1984 (when advertised in Die Weltkunst, 15 November 1984, p. 3354), from whom acquired in 1987.

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau 1983, vol. II, pp. 1006-07, reproduced in colour p. 1014;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, pp. 136-37, cat. no. 52, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 95, cat. no. 89, reproduced in colour.

Spilberg was a pupil of Govert Flinck and court painter in Düsseldorf to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. This painting was considered by J.G. van Gelder to be an early work by Johann Spilberg the Younger, an opinion published in Werner Sumowski's volume of 1983 (see Literature), where it is compared with Spilberg's signed and dated depiction of Jael, dated 1644, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.¹

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