Jeremias van Winghe

Anonymous sale, Christie's, 1 October 1971, lot 139 (as Follower of Procaccini);

Thereafter acquired by the present owner.

Born into a family of artists, Jeremias van Winghe specialized in drawings in his early career before focusing on figural paintings and portraits until his death in 1645. He studied with Frans Badens in Amsterdam, after which time he lived and worked in Italy for a number of years. Upon marrying Johanna de Neufville, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, Winghe stepped away from painting in 1616, and subsequently joined his father-in-law's business. He later returned to painting as his primary profession, around 1640, however this absence from painting provides for the relative scarcity of known works by him.