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拍品專文
Although Gerbrand van den Eeckhout painted his father on several occasions, this intimate portrait is distinguished from the others as it is a highly personal, almost candid likeness. Painted a year before Jan's death, it the only known portrait in which the artist's father does not wear a hat, allowing the viewer to see the sitter as he would have appeared in his home, at ease with his family. A goldsmith by profession, Jan dramatically elevated his family’s social status two years after the death of his first wife, Grietje Claesdr Lydecker, when in 1633 he married Cornelia Dedel (1594-1660), the daughter of a successful and wealthy director of the East India Company in Delft.
In the late 19th or early 20th century, this portrait was part of the collection of Edward Rogers Wood (1866-1941) and his wife Euphemia (1867-1950). Both Edward Wood and his brother Frank P. Wood were prominent Canadian financiers and art collectors, whose distinguished collections of Old Master paintings numbered among the earliest and most important of their kind in Toronto. To this date, Frank P. Wood remains the single most generous donor to the Art Gallery of Ontario, having gifted masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Jacob van Ruisdael, to name just a few. The present painting hung in the dining room of the Wood home (fig. 1), which was later donated to the University of Toronto and then transferred to Glendon College (York University).
In a letter dated dated 17 March 2001, Professor Werner Sumowski confirmed the attribution to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout and noted that the present work was among the best he knew by the artist.
In the late 19th or early 20th century, this portrait was part of the collection of Edward Rogers Wood (1866-1941) and his wife Euphemia (1867-1950). Both Edward Wood and his brother Frank P. Wood were prominent Canadian financiers and art collectors, whose distinguished collections of Old Master paintings numbered among the earliest and most important of their kind in Toronto. To this date, Frank P. Wood remains the single most generous donor to the Art Gallery of Ontario, having gifted masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Jacob van Ruisdael, to name just a few. The present painting hung in the dining room of the Wood home (fig. 1), which was later donated to the University of Toronto and then transferred to Glendon College (York University).
In a letter dated dated 17 March 2001, Professor Werner Sumowski confirmed the attribution to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout and noted that the present work was among the best he knew by the artist.