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STUDIO OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN, LEIDEN, 1606 - 1669, AMSTERDAM (POSSIBLY GERRIT DOU, LEIDEN, 1613 - 1675, A 17TH CENTURY OIL ON PANEL
Head and shoulders portrait of an old bearded man, wearing a velvet cap believed to be the Artist’s father, Douwe Jansz, 1584 - 1656, held in a fine period carved giltwood frame decorated with foliage.
(panel 13.2cm x 16.7cm, sight 12.5cm x 16.4cm, frame 30cm x 34cm)
N.B. The identity of the sitter in the present work is based on another portrait of Douwe Jansz attributed to his son GERRIT DOU , now housed in The McMaster Museum of Art, Ontario [Object 1984.007.0020].
Douwe Jansz was a stained glass maker by profession based in Leiden, and arranged for his son, Geritt, to study drawing under the engraver Bartholomeus Dolendo, before securing a place for him in the studio of Rembrandt in 1628. Geritt was fourteen, Rembrandt 22
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