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Frans Hals - PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH HAT (REVEREND JOHN LIVINGSTON?)

Auction 995 - overview Cologne
12.05.2012, 00:00 - Old Masters and 19th Centuries Paintings
Estimate: 100.000 € - 150.000 €
Result: 183.000 € (incl. premium)
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Frans Hals

PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH HAT (REVEREND JOHN LIVINGSTON?)

Oil on canvas (relined). 58,4 x 47 cm.

According to tradition this portrait of a man with hat depicts the Scottish divine John Livingston of Ancrum, who played a role in the turmoils of British history in the middle of the 17th century, and who stayed in the Netherlands for a period. Also according to tradition, Robert Livingston, the son of the sitter, took the painting with him to America when he emigrated there in 1673. Seymour Slive (op. cit. p. 93) leaves the identity of the sitter open as it cannot be verified conclusively. Slive dates the painting to around 1650 and assumes that it has been cut down on all four sides in the past.

Provenance

Van Brugh Livingston, New York. - Mrs. Charles J. Welch, New York. - Livingston Welch, New York. - Private collection, Germany.

Literature

Edwin Brockholst Livingston: The Livingstons of Callendar and their Prinicipal Cadets. A Family History, Part II: America. New York 1887, S. 337. - Edwin Brockholst Livingston: The Livingstons of Livingston Manor. New York 1910, ill. p. 22, p. 54, comm. 2. - Seymour Slive: Frans Hals. 3 vols. New York 1970, vol. 3, p. 93, no. 178, vol. 2, ill. 266.