.An unexplainable anonymous picture in the style of Rembrandt van Rijn just recently sold for nearly $1.5 thousand at Thomaston Spot Auction Galleries, much more than 100 opportunities its own low estimation of $10,000. The portrait shows a teenage lady worn ascetic black clothing. Depending on to Artnet Headlines, account was cataloged as being made “after” Rembrandt it was gone out with to the early 1630s, a time frame when the musician managed portrait compensations at Hendrick Uylenburgh’s workshop in Amsterdam.
Nonetheless, on the reverse of the portrait was actually fastened a label that indicated the picture may possess come from the palm of the great Outdated Master himself. Depending on to the sticker label, the painting, entitled Picture of a Woman, was actually the moment loaned to Philly Museum of Fine Art through Cary Bok of Camden, Maine, a descendant of the Curtis Publishing Business fortune. Back then, according to the tag, the painting was actually attributed to Rembrandt himself, though the Philly Museum of Art stated that such a label performs certainly not equate to authentication.
The museum was additionally not able to select which present included the paint. Related Contents. Portraiture of a Female was actually found through Kaja Veilleux, the creator as well as salesman of Thomaston Place, in the course of in the attic room of a personal real estate in Camden, Maine, during the course of a regimen home call.
Bidding process opened at $32,500, according to Live Auctioneers, as well as the rate escalated rapidly, driven by 11 prospective buyers– 9 on the phone and also 2 in person. Essentially, account mosted likely to a confidential UK collection agency, in spite of hanging around concerns regarding its own genuineness. In 2015, two Rembrandt images that were actually earlier not known were actually discovered in a family’s private compilation and also sold at Christie’s Greater london for $ 14 million.
At that time, they were thought to be actually the final Rembrandts that were actually secured independently. Christie’s presently carries the records for both the most costly and the second-most pricey Rembrandts to have ever before sold at public auction. Portrait of a male with arms akimbo ( 1658) cost u20a4 20.2 thousand ($ 33.3 million) in London in December 2009, while Picture of a girl in black clothing and a cap and collar (1632) sold for u20a4 19.8 thousand ($ 28.8 thousand) in 2000.