Lot 1139 Dα

Bartholomäus Sarburgh was a highly popular portrait painter in his time, and was probably taught in the Hague by Jan Anthonisz van Ravenstein. He resided in Bern from 1620 to 1623, where he painted some of his finest works. After this, we know of visits to Basel, The Hague and Cologne. The latter trip being in 1637, the same year in which he is recorded to have painted a copy of the Madonna of Mayor Meyer (later known as the "Darmstadt Madonna") for Queen Maria de´ Medici, which was long considered to be an authentic Holbein. Many of Sarburgh's works are kept in museums and thus do not turn up on the art market that often.