Lot 60: THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN DANIEL DE KONINCK AMSTERDAM 1668 - AFTER 1720 ENGLAND A BEARDED OLD

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN DANIEL DE KONINCK AMSTERDAM 1668 - AFTER 1720 ENGLAND A BEARDED OLD MAN READING, HALF LENGTH, WEARING A BROWN COAT AND A GOLDEN CHAIN

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Offered, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 13 December 1982, lot 43 (as by Jan Lievens).
CATALOGUE NOTE

Daniel de Koninck, who was member of a family of famous painters and goldsmiths, studied in Denmark under his uncle Jacob de Coninck (c.1614/6-after 1690). He then moved to England in 1690, where by the end of the 17th Century Rembrandt's popularity had started to spawn imitators. De Koninck was successful as a portrait painter, as well as a painter of tronies and oriental figures.

We are grateful to Professor Dr. Werner Sumowksi for suggesting the attribution to Daniel de Koninck. He dates the present work to the early 18th Century.

113 by 84.3 cm.