Abraham van Dijck (Amsterdam 1635/6 - 1672), St. Jerome
oil on canvas. 28 3/4 by 33 1/8 in.; 73 by 84 cm. PROVENANCE: The Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall (as Rembrandt); His sale, London, Christie's, October 8, 1954, lot 123 (as Salomon Koninck); With Alfred Brod, London, 1957 (as "A Hermit" by Jan Lievens); Private Collection, United States. EXHIBITED: London, Alfred Brod Gallery, Pictures for the Collector, February-March 1957, no. 13 (as Jan Lievens). LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: J. Smith, A Catalogue raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1842, vol. VII, p. 68, cat. no. 159 (as Rembrandt, called "A Venerable Man Meditating on Mortality"); C. Hofstede de Groot, Werkverzeichnisse Rembrandy und Nicolaes Maes. Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten hollandischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Esslingen-Paris 1915, vol. VI, p. 451, Anmerkungen 56 (as School of Rembrandt); Alfred Brod Gallery, Pictures for the Collector, exhibition catalogue, London 1957, cat. no. 13, reproduced