The Meeting of Jacob and Rahel
Wolfgang Heimbach (Ovelgönne/Oldenburg um 1620 - nach 1678)
Lot-No. 383
Proceeds : 20.200 €
Oil/wood, 47,5 x 62,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. and dat. Olbenb. CHPW fec. 1652, some rest. - German portrait and history painter. He was supposedly educated in the Netherlands at the instance of the count of Oldenburg. His use of colours suggest the influence of Dirck Hals or Palamedes Palamedesz. He worked in Bremen in 1636, in 1645 he painted the Pope in Rome, in 1647 painted portraits at the Danish court where he became painter to the court in 1654. Mus.: London (Nat. Gall.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Bremen, Copenhagen, Brunswick, Kassel, Hannover. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
Wolfgang Heimbach: The Meeting of Jacob and Rahel
Wolfgang Heimbach (Ovelgönne/Oldenburg um 1620 - nach 1678)
The Meeting of Jacob and Rahel
Lot-No. 383
Proceeds : 20.200 €
Oil/wood, 47,5 x 62,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. and dat. Olbenb. CHPW fec. 1652, some rest. - German portrait and history painter. He was supposedly educated in the Netherlands at the instance of the count of Oldenburg. His use of colours suggest the influence of Dirck Hals or Palamedes Palamedesz. He worked in Bremen in 1636, in 1645 he painted the Pope in Rome, in 1647 painted portraits at the Danish court where he became painter to the court in 1654. Mus.: London (Nat. Gall.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Bremen, Copenhagen, Brunswick, Kassel, Hannover. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
