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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

FOLLOWER OF SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK | PORTRAIT OF ADAM DE COSTER

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September 23, 02:39 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Belgian Private Collection

FOLLOWER OF SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK

PORTRAIT OF ADAM DE COSTER


oil on panel

unframed: 25.8 x 19.5 cm.; 10⅛ x 7¾ in.

framed: 41.7 x 36.8 cm.; 16⅜ x 14½ in.


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M. Kann;

By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 9 June 1911, lot 21;

Sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 5 December 1964, lot 12;

Sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 14 March 1970, lot 9;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 15 June 1979, lot 18 (all the above as Van Dyck).

Based on the grisaille oil sketch that Van Dyck made for the Iconography,1 the ambitious series of portrait prints designed by him in the early 1630s. Adam de Coster was born in 1586 in the Flemish city of Mechelen, a province of Antwerp, and appears to have spent much of his career in Antwerp, becaming a Master of the Guild of Saint Luke around 1607. In the Iconography, he is described as 'pictor noctium', signaling that his reputation as a painter of night scenes had firmly been established in Northern Europe by this period.


1 https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/48288