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JAN VAN BIJLERT (UTRECHT 1597/8-1671)
Saint Luke the Evangelist
oil on canvas
36 3/4 x 30 1/2 in. (93.3 x 77.5 cm.)
Provenance
Cornelis Apostool (1762-1844), Amsterdam; his anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1822, lot 7, as part of a set of the four Evangelists (10 gns. to Adams).
Foster & Sons, London, 2 June 1830 [=2nd day], lot 182 (2 gns. to Mallough).
Robert Percy Attenborough (1848-1929), Haydon Hill, Hertfordshire; Christie's, London, 19 November 1926, lot 109, as part of a set of the four Evangelists (75 gns. to the following).
with Thomas Ward London, 1926.
with Schwagermann, Schiedam, 1932, from whom acquired by the following,
H. L. Zeelenberg, Eindhoven, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 April 2010, lot 103.
Literature
A. von Schneider, Caravaggio und die Niederländer, Marburg/Lahn, 1933, p. 132.
G. Isarlo, Caravage et le Caravagisme Europeen, Aix-en-Provence, 1941, p. 90.
G.J. Hoogewerff, 'Jan van Bijlert, Schilder van Utrecht (1598-1671)', Oud Holland, LXXX, 1965, p. 25, no. 19.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p. 71.
P. Huys-Janssen, Jan van Bijlert 1597/98-1671, London, 1998, pp. 106 and 230, no. 29, pl. 7.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.