Two unknown portraits of the Dutch artist Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt have been discovered in a private art collection of a British family, writes the Financial Times with reference to the auction house Christie’s.
According to the publication, experts at the auction house found in the collection portraits of an elderly husband and wife from Leiden, dated 1635. As the representative of Christie’s Henry Pettifer explained to the newspaper, experts did not immediately understand that they were looking at the originals of Rembrandt. “It was surprising that the photographs [этих портретов] have never been studied before. They were completely absent in the literature of Rembrandt, ”the specialist noted.
According to him, the experts confirmed the authenticity of the works. In early July, they will go on sale in the showrooms of Christie’s in London. The estimated cost of the pair is between 5 and 8 million pounds.
The newspaper notes that the family’s ancestors, whose identity has not been revealed, bought a pair of small oil paintings in 1824 at Christie’s auction. The portraits depict Jan Willems van der Pluim and his wife Jaapgen Karels, a married couple who knew the artist.
Source: Rosbalt
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