WOLFGANG HEIMBACH | Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, wearing a gold chain

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman of Title'), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1991, lot 197, where acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. I, Portraits, Münster/Hamburg/London 1995, p. 72, cat. no. 25, reproduced in colour.

Heimbach is believed to have been in Italy at this date, when he travelled to Rome to work under the influence of Gerrit van Honthorst, producing candlelit genre scenes. Heimbach's paintings are characterised by their variety of style, technique and subject matter - a diversity also reflected in his mutable monogram, which here reads simply: 'WH.'