References

Discovery of hidden and unrecognized masterpieces in private collections

While under contract with Christie’s, I discovered in a private family collection an early Flemish painting depicting Adam and Eve, which I could attribute to the Master of the Embroidered Foliage.

The painting was the most expensive old master painting sold at Christie’s Amsterdam. In 2013, it was presented to a wider public in the exhibition The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden. Painting in Brussels 1450-1520 in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels as a work of Aert van den Bossche.

Master of the Embroidered Foliage (active 1480-1510)

Adam and Eve

Oil on panel

49,6 x 33 cm (measured within the frame)

Original frame with mark of the carpenters of Brussels

(The 40th Anniversary Sale Christie’s, Amsterdam, 20 November 2012, lot 86, €1.210.000 hammer)

Private Collection Photo © Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images, CH6354574

Insurance value estimation of old master paintings in private and company collections

While under contract with Christie’s, I valued e.g. the old master paintings in the collection of the banking house Sal. Oppenheim, Cologne, in 2011.

I rediscovered in the collection a painting by the Dutch painter Jan Lievens, which is since 2012 on loan in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne. The picture was recently presented to a wider public in the exhibition Inside Rembrandt 1606-1669 in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674)

A merchant tailoring a feather pen, circa 1627

Oil on canvas

127 x 107,5 cm

Private collection, on loan in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne