ATTRIBUTED TO DANIEL DE KONINCK | PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A RED SCARF

Private collection, Germany;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 13 September 1995, lot 325 (as Attributed to de Koninck), when acquired.

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 294–97, cat. no. 68, reproduced in colour (as Attributed to de Koninck).

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Daniel de Koninck was the nephew of both the renowned landscape painter Philips Koninck and Jacob Koninck, the latter of whom he apprenticed with from 1682 until 1690 when he moved to Oxford. 

When this painting was last on the market, Dr. Werner Sumowski endorsed a full attribution to the artist on the basis of photographs.