A Portrait of a Gentleman, Bust Length, Wearing a Black Beret and Coat with White Shirt, Against a Green Background

Oil on panel
48.1 by 35.5 cm.


Until 1957 this interesting portrait was always considered to be by the Bruges painter Ambrosius Benson (1490?1550). At
the end of 1956 it was also sold as such in Brussels, accompagnied by a certificate of Prof. Dr. M.J. Friedl?nder. However, in
1957 in his monograph on Ambrosius Benson (see Literature below) Georges Marlier refuted this attribution, cataloguing it
together with a group of 23 other paintings as having been painted by one or several unidentified painters active in Bruges,
and positioned stylistically in between Ambrosius Benson and Adriaen Isenbrandt. According to Marlier the present portrait
lacks a certain stiffness, which is typical of Benson, especially in the figure?s hand.


Provenance:
Collection Brugnain?Milday, London, 1892;
Collection Fontaine Flament, Paris, 1903;
Sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 28 March 1955, lot 36 (as attributed to Benson);
Sale, Brussels, Galerie Trussart, 19 November 1956, lot 41 (as Ambrosius Benson; with certificates of Prof. Dr. Max Jacob
Friedl?nder and of Mr. Robert Lebel);
Charles Spaens, Brussels, by 1957.


Literature:
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture ? Bruges au temps de Charles?Quint, Damme 1957, pp. 327?328, no. 197
(as part of a group of 23 other paintings having been painted by one or several unidentified painters active in Bruges,
standing stylistically in between Ambrosius Benson and Adriaen Isenbrandt).

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