Live Auction 20684Old Masters Part II
JAN VAN BIJLERT (UTRECHT 1597/8-1671)
Lot 130

JAN VAN BIJLERT (UTRECHT 1597/8-1671)

Saint Luke the Evangelist

Closed7 July 2023

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GBP 30,000–40,000

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JAN VAN BIJLERT (UTRECHT 1597/8-1671)
Saint Luke the Evangelist
oil on canvas
36 ¾ x 30 ½ in. (93.3 x 77.5 cm.)

Cornelis Apostool (1762-1844), Amsterdam; his anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1822, lot 7, as part of a set of the four Evangelists (10 gns. to Adams).
Foster & Sons, London, 2 June 1830 [=2nd day], lot 182 (2 gns. to Mallough).
Robert Percy Attenborough (1848-1929), Haydon Hill, Hertfordshire; Christie's, London, 19 November 1926, lot 109, as part of a set of the four Evangelists (75 gns. to the following).
with Thomas Ward, London, 1926.
with Schwagermann, Schiedam, 1932, from whom acquired by the following,
H. L. Zeelenberg, Eindhoven, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 April 2010, lot 103.

Specialist note

This painting was originally part of a set of four representing the Evangelists. In the early nineteenth century, they were in the collection of Cornelis Apostool (1762-1844), then director of the Koninklijk Museum in Amsterdam, which would later become the Rijksmuseum. Remarkably, the group remained together until 1926, after which they were sold off separately by the London art dealer Thomas Ward. Saint John is in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and Saint Matthew is in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. The whereabouts of Saint Mark were unknown for decades until its appearance at auction in Stockholm in 2011; it is now in the Kremer Collection, Amsterdam.