Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Harlingen 1608 - Amsterdam 1651

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A man dressed as an Oriental, presumably Marinus Lowysse (1598 – 1645), c. 1638-40

Oil on Canvas, 64 x 53.1 cm

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Private collection, United Kingdom (?), as by Gustaf Carl Pilo (according to an (18th/19th c.) English label to the reverse, no. 338 and no. 16);
Sale Stockholm (Bukowskis), 27 May 2009, lot 257, as by Pilo;
Jan Six, Amsterdam;
private collection, New York, 2011 – 2024;
Koetser Gallery, Zurich.

Literature

P.A.B van den Brink, ‘Tussen Rubens and Rembrandt: Jacob Adriaensz Backer als portret-en-historie schilder in Amsterdam’ (Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2016), pp. 18-20, fig. 12.