Master of the 1540s (active ?Antwerp c. 1541-1551) - Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in an embroidered black doublet and a black cloak and cap, holding leather gloves

oil on panel - 25 x 18¼ in. (63.5 x 46.4 cm.) - Estimate: £30,000 - £50,000 - Unsold.

Provenance: Gustav Ritter Hoschek von Mühlheim, Prague, 1907.
(possibly) sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 25-26 November 1919, lot 41, as Frans Pourbus I.
Arthur V. Hansa, Berlin; Christie's, 18 November 1927, lot 124, as Pieter Pourbus (250 gns. to Leger).
Galerie Heinemann/Art Market, Munich.
Private collection, Germany.
(possibly) Habsburg, Feldman, New York, 30 May 1990, lot 6.

Literature: W. Martin, Galerie Gustav Ritter Hoscheck von Mühlheim in Prag, Prague, 1907, pp. 61-2, no. 98, as Pieter Pourbus.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting. Antonis Mor and his Contemporaries, XIII, Leiden and Brussels, 1975, p. 94, no. 260, pl. 127.

Christie's London. OLD MASTER PICTURES. 25 April 2008