Reynier van Gherwen (active 1640-1662)

Mercenary Love

Details

Reynier van Gherwen (active 1640-1662)
Mercenary Love
signed 'Gherwen f.'(centre left)
oil on canvas
31¾ x 39 in. (80.7 x 99.1 cm.)

Provenance

J.G. Bridges.
T Gregory.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 17 Jan. 1874, lot 136, as 'A. Casissa: the Companion' (sold with lot 135, 59gns. to Filpot).
Nunn; Sotheby's, London, 9 Dec. 1936, lot 29 (to W. Carpenter).

Literature

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schler, II, Landau and Pflaz, 1983, p. 1280, no. 820, illustrated p. 1283.

Lot Essay

According to Sumowski (op. cit., p. 1278), Reynier van Gherwen was in Rembrandt's studio c. 1640-45. He is recorded in 1659 as a member of the painter's confraternity in The Hague and he probably died shortly before 1 March 1662. Like many of Rembrandt's students, he kept closely to a limited range of subjects and remarkably, for a career that spanned twenty years, produced very few pictures. Sumowski (op. cit., p. 1280) dates this picture to van Gherwen's later period of c. 1655-60.

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