About This Artwork

Jan Baptist Weenix, attributed to
Dutch, 1621-1660

Portrait of a Man, c. 1650

Oil on copper
14 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (36.5 x 30.2 cm)
Sophia P. Morton Purchase Fund, 1969.111

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Brian Koetser Gallery, Autumn 1963, cat. 25.

Publication History

Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke, "Jan de Bray," Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938/1939), pp. 491-2, no. F17.

Advertisement, Art News 66, no. 4 (1967), p. 21, ill.

Ownership History

Sir John Ramsden, Bart., Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; sold, Christie's, London, 11 July 1930, no. 36 together with a pendant portrait on copper of an older man, as Frans Hals to Storey [annotated catalogue in Ryerson Library; the portraits were presumably separated shortly thereafter, because the companion to 1969.111, now in the collection of Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, is described by von Moltke 1938/1939 as in a Rotterdam private collection, though he appears not to know the location of 1969.111]. Brian Koetser Gallery, London by 1963 [exhibited London 1963]; sold by David Koetser, Zurich to the Art Institute, 1969.