Rembrandt

Object category

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

pendant

Rembrandt, Portret van Nicolaes van Bambeeck (1596-1661) (pendant)

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (portrait format) 105,4 x 83,9 cm
according to White the painting has been cut at the top and the sides, since cusping is only visible at the bottom of the canvas (White/De Sancha 2015, no. 162, p. 315)

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed and dated lower left: Rembrandt. f. / 1641.
inscription upper center: AE29
top centre, inscription: AE29

Current attribution: Rembrandt

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1641 (1641)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Portret van Agatha Bas (1611-1658)
English title: Portrait of Agatha Bas
Keywords: portrait, woman's portrait, half-length, head frontal, laced bodice, flat lace collar, scarf, fan, pearl necklace, in a trompe-l'oeil-frame (arch-shaped)
: In 1913 Schmidt-Degener identified the sitter of the portrait with Titia van Uylenburch and the pendant portrait with Francois Coopal (Schmidt-Degener 1913, p. 1-11). After cleaning the picture an inscription recording the sitter's age appeared, excluding Titia as the possible portrayed person (Van Gelder 1953, p. 38). In 1958 Van Eeghen identified the woman on the portrait with Agatha Bas and the pendant portrait with Nicolaes van Bambeeck, whose ages corresponds to the ones inscribed on the pictures (Van Eeghen 1958A). This identification has been accepted ever since (White/De Sancha 2015, no. 162, p. 318).

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 929663

Agatha Bas 1611 - 1658

Name

Bas, Agatha

Initials

A.

Sex

v

Date/place of birth

Amsterdam 1611 - 1611-02-06

Baptized

Date/place of death

Amsterdam 1658 - 1658-01-09

Buried

1658-01-09

Marriage(s)

Amsterdam 1638-04-27
110615/Bambeeck, Nicolaas van

Aetatis

29

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
attributed to Ferdinand Bol, Portret van Agatha Bas (1611-1658)
used as model for
Jurriaan Andriessen
drawing, 85 mm × 64 mm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-T-00-1062

inscribed: "fraay pourtrait van Rimbrand gezien by de Hr Coclers Mey 1805" (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108)

Collection(s)

private collection Louis Bernard Coclers, Leiden/Paris/Amsterdam/Luik
Jurriaan Andriessen made a drawing, dated 1805, after this painting while it was in the collection of Louis Bernard Coclers (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. no.: RP-T-00-1062).
1805 -
art dealer Lambertus Johannes Nieuwenhuys, Brussels
1809 - 1814-06-29 Nieuwenhuys bought the painting and its companion piece together with the Brussels-based art dealer Dansaert Engels in 1809. After transferring the painting and it's pendant to England they were put up for sale on 1814-06-29 (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108).
art dealer John Smith, London
According to White the painting was sold by John Smith to lord Charles Townshend (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108). A copy of the 1814 auction catalogue at the the RKD (next to lot no. 76) bears the annotation "This picture was sold by the writer to Lord Charles Townsend for 1000 gs. in his Lordships sale in 1818 it was knocked down to Lord Yarmouth for the king at 720 gs. J.S.".
Private collection
Lord Charles Townshend; According to White, Lord Charles Townshend bought this painting from John Smith (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108). A copy of the 1814 auction catalogue at the the RKD (next to lot no. 76) bears the annotation "This picture was sold by the writer to Lord Charles Townsend for 1000 gs. in his Lordships sale in 1818 it was knocked down to Lord Yarmouth for the king at 720 gs. J.S.".
- 1819-06-04 date of auction
private collection George IV (king of England), London/Brighton
according to White this painting was bought at the auction of 1819 by Lord Yarmouth for George IV (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108; Getty Provenance Index Databases, no. Br-1815)
1819-06-04 -
The Royal Collection, Great Britain , inv./cat.nr RCIN 405352
1819 -

Auction(s)

Christie (London (England)) 1814-06-28 - 1814-06-29, lotnr. 76
Name buyer : bought in (White 1982, no. 162, p. 107-108)

, Lugt no. 8545: "Rembrand. Portrait of a Lady in black drapery with a white lace tippet, embroidered stomacher, and fan, a wonderful effort of the art. The delineation from nature is agreeable and fine, but the golden effect of light, and the rich and glowing tints are the nec plus ultra of the art. This extraordinary performance is apparently of the same time and degree of rare merit with the celebrated picture the Woman taken in Adultery, which R. painted for the Burgomaster Six"
Robins, George (London (England)) 1819-06-04, lotnr. 32
Contributor lord Charles Townshend
Name buyer : Lord Yarmouth for the Prince Regent (Getty Provenance Index Databases, no. Br-1815) , 745.10 GBP

according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (RKD, The Hague) , Lugt no. 9609: "A Lady with her Fan. Painted in 1641, when the Artist was 35 Years of Age, and in the full bloom of all his magic powers of Art, which in this Picture is carried to its acmé; it possesses all his rich, sparkling, and golden glow of Colour, with the most comprehensive display of the Chiaro Scuro that his Pencil ever produced, and has been unanimously acknowledged the fmest of his productions, and the ne plus ultra of Art."

Exhibitions

British Institution for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom [etc., 1814-1816, 1818-1821, 1823-1824] British Institution , London (England) , 1814 - 1824 , 1821, no. 9
Catalogue of his majesty's collection of pictures from Carlton House palace [1826] British Institution , London (England) , 1826 - 1827 , no. 19
Catalogue of his majesty's collection of pictures from Carlton House palace [1827] British Institution , London (England) , 1827 - 1828 , no. 116
De Rembrandt tentoonstelling te Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam , 1898-09 - 1898-11 , no. 15
Exhibition of works by Rembrandt : winter exhibition, thirtieth year, MDCCCXCIX Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1899-01-02 - 1899-03-10 , no. 48
Exhibition of the King's pictures, 1946-47 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1946-10-26 - 1947-03-16 , no. 360
Masterpieces of the Dutch school from the collection of H.M. the King of England on the occasion of the 50-year reign of Queen Wilhelmina Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague , 1948-08-06 - 1948-09-26 , no. 7
An exhibition of paintings by Rembrandt National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh , 1950-08-20 - 1950-09-09 , no. 15
Dutch pictures 1450-1750 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1952-11-22 - 1953-03-01 , no. 181
Rembrandt : Der Meister und seine Werkstatt Altes Museum [SMBPK] , Berlin , 1991-09-12 - 1991-11-10 , no. 35
Rembrandt : de meester & zijn werkplaats : tekeningen & etsen Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam , 1991-12-04 - 1992-01-19 , no. 35
Rembrandt : The Master and his Workshop National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1992-03-26 - 1992-05-14 , no. 35
Uylenburgh & Zoon : kunst en commercie van Rembrandt tot De Lairesse 1625-1675 Museum Het Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam , 2006-09-16 - 2006-12-10
Rembrandt : portret van Nicolaes van Bambeeck = Rembrandt : portrait de Nicolaes van Bambeeck Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België , Brussels , 2009-06-23 - 2009-09-27 , no. 2

Literature

London 1814-1824 , 1821, no. 9
London 1826 , no. 19
London 1827 , no. 116
Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 7 (1836), no. 511
Waagen 1837-1838 , vol. 2 (1838), p. 160
Waagen 1854 , vol. 2, p. 5
Hofstede de Groot 1898 , no. 51
London 1899A , no. 48
Schmidt-Degener 1913 , p. 1-11
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 860
Bredius 1935 , no. 360
Amsterdam 1935 , p. 48, under no. 9
London 1946A , no. 360
The Hague 1948 , no. 7
Edinburgh 1950 , no. 15
Van Gelder 1950 , p. 328
London 1952 , no. 181
Van Gelder 1953B , p. 39
Van Eeghen 1958A
Bauch 1966 , no. 501
Gerson 1968 , no. 233
Harris et al. 1968 , p. 238
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 360
White 1982 , no. 162, p. 107-108
Tümpel 1986 , no. 243
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 3 (1989), no. A 145
Brown/Kelch/ Van Thiel 1991 , no. 35
Slatkes 1992 , no. 139
Van Thiel 1992 , p. 81, no. 51
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 4 (2005), p. 371
Lammertse/Van der Veen 2006 , p. 193, 195-196
De Winkel 2006 , p. 18, 85, 88-89
De Belie 2009 , no. 2
Reynolds 2013 , p. 48, 61, 70, 140, 144, 219-220
Babbage Iorns 2015 , p. 177
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 187b
Weststeijn 2015 , p. 275, ill. 168
White/De Sancha 2015 , no. 162, p. 315-318

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001251961)
BD/RKD/IB/XVIIB on BAMBEECK (img.nr. IB00929663)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000065720)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000065721)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000065722)
, Original location BD/RKD/0700 - ONS/Dated Works (img.nr. 0000090067)

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