A pair of unknown and 'exceptionally rare' portraits by Rembrandt have been discovered in a private collection in the UK.
A pair of unknown and “exceptionally rare” portraits by Rembrandt have been discovered in a private collection in the UK. The intimate paintings of relatives of the Dutch master are now expected to sell for between £5 million and £8 million at auction. Signed and dated 1635, the pictures are of an elderly husband and wife who were related to Rembrandt by marriage.
” Since that sale, the paintings remained in Britain in the same family’s private collection and were unknown to experts. The current owners have not been named. Henry Pettifer, international deputy chair of Old Master paintings at Christie’s, told CNN in a telephone interview that the discovery was made a couple of years ago, as part of a “routine valuation to look at the contents of a house.
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