Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Private Collection, Belgium

Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Object details

Title

Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

58.4 x 48.5 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Previously unpublished

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection, Belgium

Provenance

Eugensberg sale, Fischer, Lucerne, 17-21 May 1949 (2316), ‘Brustbild eines bärtigen Mannes’, as Van Dyck;
Swiss private collection;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 May 2020 (41), as follower of Van Dyck.

Literature

Literature

Previously unpublished.

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Hands and Castle - one branding iron

Panel maker's mark

Ambrosius Engelants (free master 1625)

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 67
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 169
Dated: AD 1485 – 1609
Felled: After AD 1615 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 79
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Planks of the same tree

1. and 3. this painting

Date of investigation

29 July 2020

Dendro report no.

BL012/2020

Remarks

Remark

Ambrosius Engelants, panel maker, is mentioned in De Liggeren (I, p. 611) as paying wine money to the Guild of Saint Luke during the guild year 1624 to 1625

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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