.A mystical anonymous portrait in the type of Rembrandt truck Rijn recently cost nearly $1.5 thousand at Thomaston Spot Auction Galleries, greater than 100 times its own low estimate of $10,000. The picture portrays a teenage woman dressed in ascetic dark clothing. Depending on to Artnet Headlines, the picture was cataloged as being made “after” Rembrandt it was dated to the early 1630s, a duration when the performer managed picture percentages at Hendrick Uylenburgh’s workshop in Amsterdam.
Nevertheless, on the opposite of the portraiture was actually fastened a tag that implied the picture might possess stemmed from the palm of the excellent Old Master himself. Depending on to the label, the art work, entitled Picture of a Female, was actually when loaned to Philly Museum of Fine Art through Cary Bok of Camden, Maine, a spin-off of the Curtis Posting Business fortune. During that time, depending on to the label, the art work was attributed to Rembrandt themself, though the Philadelphia Gallery of Craft stated that such a label does not relate to authorization.
The museum was likewise not able to pin down which present consisted of the art work. Associated Contents. Image of a Lady was found through Kaja Veilleux, the founder and also salesclerk of Thomaston Spot, throughout in the attic of an exclusive real estate in Camden, Maine, in the course of a regimen property call.
Bidding opened up at $32,500, depending on to Live Auctioneers, as well as the price intensified rapidly, driven through 11 prospective buyers– 9 on the phone as well as pair of personally. Eventually, account went to an undisclosed UK collection agent, in spite of hanging around inquiries concerning its legitimacy. Last year, two Rembrandt portraits that were recently unidentified were actually found in a family members’s personal collection as well as cost Christie’s London for $ 14 thousand.
Back then, they were thought to be the final Rembrandts that were held independently. Christie’s currently carries the records for both the absolute most expensive and also the second-most expensive Rembrandts to have actually ever before cost auction. Portraiture of a male along with upper arms akimbo ( 1658) cost u20a4 20.2 million ($ 33.3 million) in London in December 2009, while Portraiture of a girl in dark costume and also a hat and also collar (1632) sold for u20a4 19.8 million ($ 28.8 thousand) in 2000.