UPDATE: Belatedly I found out that the original for this painting is a work in the Dresden Gemaldegalerie, painted by Rubens. The poor images I found show a distinctly less pretty painting than the one sold here though. A better (though sweeter) version was sold at Sotheby's in 2011 for £27,500. End of update...
Now for sale at Historia, starting at 400 Euro, is a "Flemish portrait of the 17th century", 65 by 49 cm. It is a good quality work, in the style of Van Dyck. I can't readily identify it with a painter, but the quality is better than the starting price would make you believe. UPDATE: sold for 1,600 Euro, still cheap but a lot more realistic than the 400 Euro...
Portraits by Van Dyck like the one above share a number of characteristics with the one for sale, but the Van Dyck is a lot more individual, less generic (or perhaps it's just that a somewhat older face has more character than the young one for sale). The one for sale also looks slightly more modern, perhaps because of the hairdo. In any case, it looks to be worth a lot more than the 400 Euro it is priced at.
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