Wednesday 2 December 2015

Circle of Adriaen Isenbrandt: could it be by Willem Benson?

Alcala Subastas, from Spain, sells on 16 December 2015 a "Circle of Adriaen Isenbrandt" Virgin and Child, estimated at 12,000 Euro.

I blogged about another, much more amateurish version of this work earlier, but this one is way better.

It may be the work of Willem Benson, child of Ambrosius Benson (one of the two possible originators of this painting, the other suspect being Adriaen Isenbrandt). It looks somewhat more modern than an original Abrosius Benson. That this work appears in a Spanish auction isn't unusual, many of these copies can be found there, e.g. in Sevilla, and it seems likely that most of these were made directly for the Spanish market. It is in any case one of the best of these to come on the market in a long time, and should fetch the estimate quite easily.

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