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Henry Raeburn

1756 – Edinburgh – 1823

Porträt eines jungen Mannes. Circa 1810/20

Oil on canvas. Relined. 74,5 × 62,5 cm (29 ⅜ × 24 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Henry Raeburn. Porträt eines jungen Mannes. Circa 1810/20.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 12,000

USD 8,990

 

- 13,500

Sold for:

21,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions Spring 2019

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 29.05.2019

Information

Oil on canvas. Relined. 74,5 × 62,5 cm (29 ⅜ × 24 ⅝ in.). Inscribed with chalk on bottom right of the stretcher frame: DR. LUZ. Retouchings. Framed

We would like to thank Helen Smailes, Senior Curator of British Art at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, for kindly providing additional information regarding the date..

Robert von Mendelssohn, Berlin (1908 at the latest, until 1917) / Giulietta Giordigiani, widow of the previous owner, Berlin/Florence / Dr. W. A. Luz, Berlin / Private Collection, Sweden (acquired in 1967 at Spik)

Ausstellung aelterer englischer Kunst. Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Künste, 1908, cat. no. 51 (as „unknown artist“) / Berliner Sammler-Tradition. Berlin, Bezirksamt Tiergarten, Abt. Volksbildung, Amt für Kunst, and Verband der Berliner Kunst- und Antiquitätenhändler e.V., at Haus am Lützowplatz 9, 1950, cat. no. 186 a (as Henry Raeburn)

Weltkunst, XXXVII. Vol., no. 10, 15.5.1967, ill. p. 485 (announcement for the following auction] / auction 460: Gemälde, Graphik, Möbel [...] aus verschiedenem Besitz. Berlin, Leo Spik, 26./27.5.1967, cat. no. 194, ill. pl. 43 (as „Sir Henry Raeburn zugeschrieben“)