JACOB WILLEMSZ. DE WET | The Deposition

Gunnar A. Sadolin, Copenhagen (as Rembrandt);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 May 1965, lot 166 (as G. van den Eeckhout);

Daan Cevat, London, by 1968;

Acquired for the present collection in 2001.

M.L. Wurfbain and B. Haak, Rondom Rembrandt: De verzameling Daan Cevat, exh. cat., Leiden 1968, p. 37, cat. no. 59;

B. Haak, The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1984, p. 256, reproduced fig. 540;

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. IV, Landau 1983, pp. 2723 and 2780, cat. no. 1836, reproduced p. 2803;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 470-75, cat. no. 81, reproduced in colour.

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Rondom Rembrandt. De verzameling Daan Cevat, 11 April - 16 June 1968, no 59.

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Jacob Willemsz. de Wet was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. It seems unlikely that he is the same as the Jacobus de Wit who was a member of the Alkmaar Guild of St. Luke in 1637, or Jan de Wet (born in Hamburg circa 1617) who was a pupil of Rembrandt. Sumowski has disentangled his work from that of his son, Jacob de Wet the Younger (Haarlem circa 1640 - 1697 Amsterdam), who was active in Edinburgh, and copied a series of paintings depicting the Kings of Scotland, as well as executing some of the decorative work in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.