Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, wearing a dark coat, white cravat and dark headcap, black and white chalk on blue-grey laid paper with fleur de lys watermark to centre, old professional restoration to edges, laid down on pale blue backing paper, 35 x 24 cm (13.75 x 9.5 ins) Provenance: A. Stewart Wright, mezzotint portrait artist active in the 1920's. Leggatt Brothers, 30 St James's Street, London, circa 1954. With a handwritten letter by A. Stewart Wright accompanying this drawing, addressed to Leggatt Brothers, dated January 11th 1954, on paper with printed name, telephone number and address 11, Lynton Road, New Malden, Surrey at head, stating: 'The chalk drawing of a bearded man by Rembrandt, on blue-grey 'wire' paper, has a fleur de lys watermark in the centre of drawing. I repaired the damages to this drawing in December 1953.' The firm of Leggatt brothers, Fine Art Dealers, was eatablished in 1820 and continued to trade until 1992, specializing in 'PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS OF ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL SCHOOLS' according to an advertisement of 1953. Pale blue or blue-grey papers were used by pupils of Rembrandt such as Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608-1651), Govaert Flinck (1615-1660) and others. (1)
Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, wearing a dark coat, white cravat and dark headcap, black and white chalk on blue-grey laid paper with fleur de lys watermark to centre, old professional restoration to edges, laid down on pale blue backing paper, 35 x 24 cm (13.75 x 9.5 ins) Provenance: A. Stewart Wright, mezzotint portrait artist active in the 1920's. Leggatt Brothers, 30 St James's Street, London, circa 1954. With a handwritten letter by A. Stewart Wright accompanying this drawing, addressed to Leggatt Brothers, dated January 11th 1954, on paper with printed name, telephone number and address 11, Lynton Road, New Malden, Surrey at head, stating: 'The chalk drawing of a bearded man by Rembrandt, on blue-grey 'wire' paper, has a fleur de lys watermark in the centre of drawing. I repaired the damages to this drawing in December 1953.' The firm of Leggatt brothers, Fine Art Dealers, was eatablished in 1820 and continued to trade until 1992, specializing in 'PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS OF ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL SCHOOLS' according to an advertisement of 1953. Pale blue or blue-grey papers were used by pupils of Rembrandt such as Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608-1651), Govaert Flinck (1615-1660) and others. (1)
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