A Miser casting his Accounts
after Jan Lievens (Leyden 1607 – Amsterdam 1674)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1092 mm (50 x 43 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401250
Caption
Once thought to be by Rembrandt, this is instead a copy of a picture now in the Heinz Kisters collection in Kreuzlingen, by a contemporary of Rembrandt, whom he both influenced and was influenced by.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Miser casting his Accounts after Jan Lievens (Leyden 1607 – Amsterdam 1674). Three-quarter-length portrait of an old man in a dark blue coat and a cap, behind a table littered with old folios and papers in shadow. In a stronger light at left lie a number of corded wallets and a confused string of papers hangs against the wall. Hour glass on ledge behind. This is a copy of a picture now in the Henz Kisters collection, Kreuzlingen.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Jan Lievens (Leyden 1607 – Amsterdam 1674), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669), artist