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Two Rare Unknown Rembrandt Portraits Discovered in Private Collection

A pair of unknown and “exceptionally rare” portraits by Rembrandt have been discovered in a private collection in the UK.

The intimate paintings of relatives of the Dutch master are now expected to sell for between £5 million and £8 million ($6.25 million-$10 million) at auction.

Signed and dated 1635, the pictures are of an elderly husband and wife who were related to Rembrandt by marriage.

Measuring just under 8 inches high, the paintings depict wealthy plumber Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen Carels, who were from a prominent family in the Dutch city of Leiden.

Their son Dominicus van der Pluym was married to Rembrandt’s cousin Cornelia van Suytbroec. The couple had one child, Karel van der Pluym, who is thought to have trained with Rembrandt and included the artist’s only surviving heir, Titus, in his will.

In 1635, the year the portraits were painted, the subjects acquired a garden next to that of Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.

Experts at Christie’s auction house, which is handling the sale, say in a press release that the portraits have a “remarkable, virtually unbroken line of provenance.”

The artworks stayed within the sitters’ family until 1760, a year after the death of the couple’s great-grandson, Marten ten Hove. They then traveled to Warsaw, to the private collection of Count Vincent Potocki, before briefly entering the collection of Baron d’Ivry in Paris in 1820 and then James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon.

In June 1824, Murray put the artworks up for sale with Christie’s, where their listing described them as “Rembrandt – very spirited and finely colored.”

Since that sale, the paintings remained in Britain in the same family’s private collection and were unknown to experts. The current owners have not been named.

Henry Pettifer, international deputy chair of Old Master paintings at Christie’s, said in a telephone interview that the discovery was made a couple of years ago, as part of a “routine valuation to look at the contents of a house.”

“The pictures were immediately of terrific interest,” he said, adding that the owners were also taken by surprise.

“I don’t think they had looked into it,” he said. “They didn’t have expectations for the paintings.”

Pettifer said he had been “incredibly excited” to see the paintings, but “at that stage I didn’t jump to any conclusions.”

Details of the earlier sale at Christie’s in 1824 set the process rolling, followed by a long period of research at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where the portraits were investigated and underwent scientific analysis.

“What’s extraordinary is that the paintings were completely unknown. They had never appeared in any of the Rembrandt literature of the 19th or 20h century, so they were completely unknown,” said Pettifer.

The identities of the sitters were only confirmed by researchers at the Rijksmuseum.

The “small, very intimate, very spontaneous” nature of the paintings indicated a close relationship with the artist, Pettifer said.

“They are not grand, formal commissioned paintings,” he said. “I think they are the smallest portraits that he painted that we know of.”

The pictures are set to go on show in New York and Amsterdam next month, before returning to London for a pre-sale exhibition and the auction on July 6.

By Lianne Kolirin.

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Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam), Portrait of Jan Willemsz. van der Pluym (circa 1565-1644) and Portrait of Jaapgen Carels (1565-1640).

Exceptionally rare, the portraits of Jan Willemsz. van der Pluym (circa 1565-1644) and Jaapgen Carels (1565-1640), signed and dated 1635, are intimate portrayals of relatives of the artist and provide a unique insight into Rembrandt’s activity as a painter within his inner circle. With a virtually unbroken line of provenance, these pictures were acquired at Christie’s by an ancestor of the present owners almost two centuries ago and have remained completely unknown to scholars ever since. They return to Christie’s now after an extensive scholarly investigation and scientific analysis undertaken at the Rijksmuseum.

Small in scale and painted from life with Rembrandt’s characteristic virtuosity, these pictures offer a tender portrayal of a dignified, elderly couple who were related to the artist.

The sitters, wealthy Leiden plumber Jan Willemsz. van der Pluym (circa 1565-1644) and his wife Jaapgen Carels (1565-1640), were intimately connected with Rembrandt. The Van der Pluyms were a prominent family in Leiden, with their son Dominicus van der Pluym marrying Cornelia van Suytbroeck, the daughter of Rembrandt’s uncle on his mother’s side, Willem van Suytbroeck. Dominicus and Cornelia had one child, the artist Karel van der Pluym, who is thought to have trained with Rembrandt and included the artist’s only surviving heir, Titus, in his will. Karel’s uncle Willem Jansz van der Pluym also sat for Rembrandt's most finished portrait drawing. In 1635, the year these portraits were painted, Jan Willemsz. van der Pluym and Jaapgen Carels acquired a garden next to that of Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.

PROVENANCE

The portraits have a remarkable, virtually unbroken line of provenance. They remained in the family of the sitters until 1760, when they were sold at auction in Amsterdam after the death of their great-great grandson Marten ten Hove (1683-1759). From there they passed to the collection of Count Vincent Potocki (circa 1740-1825) in Warsaw, before briefly entering the collection of Baron d’Ivry in Paris in 1820 and then James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon (1782-1837), who put them up for sale at Christie’s on 18 June in 1824, lot 76, listed as: ‘Rembrandt – very spirited and finely coloured’, where they were acquired. For the last two centuries they have remained in the same private UK collection.

Courtesy Alain Troung

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Two Rare Rembrandt Portraits Will Hit the Block at Christie’s in July—199 Years After They Were First Sold by the Auction House

One hundred and ninety-nine years ago, a pair of portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn sold at Christie’s. Now, for the first time since then, the artworks are hitting the block again—at the same auction house.

The two eight-inch-high portraits will be jointly offered in a lot at Christie’s Old Masters Part I Sale on July 6 in London, where they’re expected to fetch between £5 million to £8 million ($6.2 million to $10 million).

Completed in 1635, the paintings depict two elderly acquaintances of the Dutch Golden Age painter: the wealthy Leiden plumber Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen Carels. The year the portraits were painted, the couple purchased a garden next to one owned by Rembrandt’s mother. Later on, their son married the daughter of the artist’s uncle.

Heretofore unknown to Rembrandt scholars, Christie’s calls the artworks the last known portraits by the artist in private hands. They have remained in the same unidentified U.K. family’s collection since being acquired at the auction house in 1824.  

The portraits were recently rediscovered by Henry Pettifer, Christie’s International Deputy Chairman of Old Master Paintings, in an otherwise routine valuation, according to the Financial Times.  

In a statement, Pettifer called the find “one of the most exciting discoveries we have made in the Old Masters field in recent years.”

“Painted with a deep sense of humanity, these are amongst the smallest and most intimate portraits that we know by Rembrandt, adding something new to our understanding of him as a portraitist of undisputed genius,” the executive said.  ...

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I "quadretti" del parente-idraulico (con signora) di Rembrandt: venduti a 13 milioni di euro

Rimaste nella stessa collezione privata per quasi 200 anni, le opere ritraggono due parenti del Maestro olandese: il ricco idraulico di Leida, Jan Willemsz van der Pluym, e sua moglie Jaapgen Carels. Opere poco conosciute anche dai critici, ma "attribuite" ufficialmente a Rembrandt

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Christie’s to Sell Two Rembrandt Portraits Unseen for Nearly 200 Years – ARTnews.com

Two “exceptionally rare” Rembrandt portraits that were unknown to art scholars have been unearthed in a family’s private collection.

The paintings by the 17th-century Dutch master, whose works frequently sell for millions at auction, have never been displayed publicly. They were discovered by experts from Christie’s during a routine valuation. The subjects of the eight-inch portraits are Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and Jaapgen Carels, an elderly married couple from the Dutch city of Leiden, and the paintings date back to 1635.

“I wasn’t aware of what I was going to be seeing,” Henry Pettifer, Christie’s international deputy chair of Old Master paintings, told the Financial Times. “I dared to dream. But it was extraordinary to me that the pictures had never been studied before. They were completely absent from the Rembrandt literature.”

The works have an estimated value of $6.26 million – $10 million (£5 million – £8 million) and will go on sale at Christie’s in London on July 6 after going on display in New York and Amsterdam. This will be the second time Christie’s will handle the sale of the works: the auction house sold the oil paintings to ancestors of the undisclosed UK family in 1824.

Van der Pluym and Carels had family connections to Rembrandt: their son Dominicus married the daughter of Rembrandt’s uncle.

Christie’s said that there was sufficient provenance information available to suggest that the paintings were genuine Rembrandts. Pictures were also sent to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for its own expert technical and historical research, which, according to the auction house, resulted in “the same conclusion.”  ...

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