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Property from an East Coast Private Collection
Lot Closed
February 4, 06:17 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an East Coast Private Collection
DUTCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1637
PORTRAIT OF LUBEN [LUBBERT?] VAN ECK
inscribed and dated upper right: ..ETATIS.../1637; and inscribed on the reverse of the panel: LUBEN VANECK BRO.t/TO ANNA VANECK.
oil on panel
panel: 33⅛ by 26 ¾ in.; 84.2 by 68 cm.
framed: 43 by 37 in.; 109.2 by 94 cm.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 23 July 1965, lot 135 (as "B. Cuyp"), for 550 Guineas to Dent.
This charming portrait was most likely painted by a master from Gelderland, a province in the central Eastern Netherlands from which few named painters are known. The name Luben is not of Dutch origin; it may instead be a variation of the name Lub[b]ert, a name found in some regions of the Netherlands in the 17th century. The Van Eck family is an old aristocratic one based in Gelderland, but no records of a Luben or Lubbert of the appropriate age (born c. 1623) survive.
We are grateful to Dr. Sabine Craft-Giepmans for her assistance in the cataloging of this lot.