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New Rembrandt discovery in Holland Picture: NRC Exciting news from Amsterdam; a newly attributed portrait by Rembrandt has been unveiled at the Hermitage museum. The painting was discovered by the art dealer, Jan Six, at auction in London in 2016. His hunch that it was by Rembrandt has been endorsed by subsequent research and conservation, and by a number of Rembrandt scholars, including Prof. Ernst van der Wetering of the Rembrandt Research Project. More here at NRC (in Dutch), and there's also an interview with Jan Six. Jan is, incidentally, a descendant of the Jan Six painted so memorably by Rembrandt. How wonderful that four centuries later, the name Jan Six can still be associated with heralding new paintings by Rembrandt. The painting was offered in London as 'Circle of Rembrandt', with an estimate of £15,000-£20,000, and ultimately made £137,000. For what it's worth, I was one of the underbidders. Although I'm absolutely not a Rembrandt specialist, I thought on seeing the picture that it had an excellent chance of being by Rembrandt himself, painted in the early 1630s. The brilliantly painted collar in particular I thought was almost as good as a signature, and entirely consistent with the collar on the painting by Rembrandt of Philip Lucasz in the National Gallery, which was painted in 1635. What was interesting is that from the photos, the painting did not look that impressive. But in person, it was almost as one was looking at a different painting. That's a common connoisseurial challenge these days of course; photos so rarely do justice to good paintings. As you can imagine, the days before the sale were rather tense ones in AHN towers. But when the sale came, we soon ran up against our limit. There's always a feeling in situations like this that if only you'd gone for one more bid, you might have got it. But in the NRC interview, Jan Six tells us he was able to bid significantly higher, so we'd never have got it. I am so pleased that the painting has now found its rightful status. Many congratulations on the excellent sleuthing Jan!
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Otkriven nepoznati Rembrandt Nizozemski slikar Rembrandt tijekom života napravio je brojne portrete, ali o jednom dosad ništa nismo znali. Riječ je o 'Portretu mladog gospodina', koji je slavni slikar naslikao prije više od četiri stoljeća, a uskoro će biti izložen u amsterdamskom Hermitageu. Sve je počelo na jednoj londonskoj dražbi prije dvije godine kada je 'Portret mladog gospodina' bio prodan za 185 tisuća dolara. Kupio ga je nizozemski trgovac umjetninama Jan Six, koji je tada samo pretpostavljao da bi autor slike mogao biti Rembrandt. Avantura je počela dolaskom slike u Amsterdam. Zato što nije potpisana, datirana i nije opisana u literaturi - prodana je za malo novca. Morao sam dokazati da je riječ o Rembrandtu. To je bilo veoma uzbudljivo. Nakon istraživanja i pomne rekonstrukcije nije bilo dvojbe da je riječ o Rembrandtu, objašnjava Six. Zanimljivo je da je Jan Six, inače stručnjak za nizozemsko i flamansko slikarstvo, odrastao u kući prepunoj djela klasičnih majstora slikarstva. Među njima bio je i Rembrandtov portret jednog od njegovih predaka, bivšeg gradonačelnika Amsterdama. Six je uočio poseban tip ovratnika koji je bio u modi 1633. godine, naslikan stilom kojim se tada koristio samo Rembrandt. Godinu i pol dana analizirao je uzorke boje i radarske snimke ne bi li potvrdio da je riječ o tom slavnom slikaru. Potvrda je stigla i od drugih stručnjaka koji su verificirali autentičnost slike. Neću lagati, ja sam galerist i naravno da mi je važna financijska korist, ali na kraju svega ne radim to samo zbog novca. Volim slike, umjetnička djela. Volim ih otkrivati. Tek otkrivene slike, poput ove, zovemo 'spavačima', koje, kad ih pronađemo, probudimo. To je moja strast i ljubav. Opsjednut sam Rembrandtom i pronaći ovakvo što u životu bio je moj san, priznaje Jan Six. Dosad se o toj slici nije ništa znalo, a sada se već o njoj piše na sve strane. Vjeruje se da je portret lijepo odjevenog mladića crvene kose Rembrandt naslikao u svojoj 28. godini te da je to samo dio veće slike, kažu stručnjaci, na kojoj je najvjerojatnije prikazana i mladićeva žena.