Willem Drost
Portrait of a Man with a Beard
c. 165464.5 x 56.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 328
Bikker 14 (depicted mirrored)
Collection catalogues
Homan Potterton, Dutch seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986, pp. 35-36, fig. 41
Exhibitions
1983 The impact of a genius: Rembrandt, his pupils and followers in the seventeenth century, Nr. 20
Provenance
purchased by Joseph Strutt of Derby between 1820 and 1821
thence by descent to Howard Galton of Hadzor by 1854
by descent to Hubert Galton
his sale (Hadzor sale), Christie's 22 June 1889, lot 26
where purchased by The National Gallery of Ireland
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Other works by Willem Drost
Roman Charity
Daedalus attaching the wings to Icarus
The Prophetess Anna teaching a Child
Early 1650s
Early 1650s
Flute player
Man with a Beard in a Chair