Property from a British Private Collection
Gortzius Geldorp
Portrait of a member of the Sani family
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Property from a British Private Collection
Gortzius Geldorp
Leuven 1553–1619 Cologne
Portrait of a member of the Sani family
signed and dated lower left, on the sheet of paper: Geldorp o / Gordto fecit / 1582; dated above the coat of arms, upper left: 1582
oil on canvas
unframed: 93.5 x 69.8 cm.; 36¾ x 27½ in.
framed: 117.9 x 94.2 cm.; 46⅜ x 37⅛ in.
Private collection, Italy;
With Giovanni Pratesi, Florence;
His sale, Florence, Pandolfini, 24 October 2024, lot 122 (as Northern Italian School, 16th century);
Where acquired by the present owners.
Elaborately signed and twice dated 1582, this imposing portrait by Gortzius Geldorp depicts a member of the Sani family, of Tuscany, as demonstrated by the family's coat of arms in the upper left corner. Although Geldorp was born in Leuven, trained under Frans Francken the Elder (1542–1616) and Frans Pourbus the Elder (1545–1581) – both of whom were largely active in Antwerp – and spent the later years of his career in Cologne, he is thought to have travelled to Italy around 1576, when he was appointed court painter to Carlo d'Aragona Tagliavia, Duke of Terra Nova (1530–1599). Geldorp accompanied the Duke on a number of sojourns and the present portrait was likely executed on one such trip to Tuscany.
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