Tuesday 28 April 2015

The importance of getting names right

At Shapes, auction house in Edinburgh, they sell on 2 May 2015 a "T. de Brackelar" signed work, estimated at £100 to 200.

I never heard of anyone named De Brackelar, but both the name and the style of work are reminiscent of Ferdinand de Braekeleer, and a signature is easy to mistake in this way. A work by De Braekeleer is worth ten times the estimate (sometimes more, depending on subject, quality, provenance, size, condition: typical good example pictured), even in this condition.

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