Lot 128: BARENT FABRITIUS MIDDEN-BEEMSTER NEAR HOORN BAPT 1624 - 1673 AMSTERDAM

oil on panel

44 by 43.9 cm.; 17 1/4 by 17 1/4 in.

Delft, Het Prinsenhof, Prisma der bijbelse kunst, 1952, no. 37;
London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Rembrandt's Influence in the 17th Century, 1953, no. 28, reproduced in colour in the catalogue;
Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Rembrandt als Leermeester, 1956, no. 42.

M.J. Friedländer, Collection Dr. H. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1952, p. 12, cat. no. 30, reproduced fig. 9 (as with possible signature centre right);
D. Pont, Barent Fabritius 1624-1673, The Hague 1958, pp. 17ff., 107-8, cat. no. 14, reproduced fig. 9 (dated to circa 1645-50);
W. Sumowski, "Rezension von: D. Pont, Barent Fabritius", in Kunstchronik, vol. XII, 1959, p. 288;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. IV, p. 1810 (dated to the early 1650s);
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, vol. II, p. 934 (with false monogram centre right).

PROPERTY FROM A CONTINENTAL PRIVATE COLLECTION

Dr. Hans A. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, by 1952;
Captain Eric C. Palmer, M.C., Wooburn Green, by 1953 and 1956;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 December 1999, lot 159, where bought on behalf of the present owner.