Arnold Boonen (Dordrecht 1669-1729 Amsterdam) - A youth playing a violin by candlelight

oil on canvas. 40 x 32cm (15 3/4 x 12 5/8in). Sold for £60,000

PROVENANCE: Acquired by the present owner, Christie's, Rome, 18th May, 1982, lot 119

NOTE: Arnold Boonen was apprenticed in 1683 to the portrait and genre painter, Godfried Schalcken, working with him in Dordrecht for six years. Technically a highly accomplished artist he succeeded Nicolaes Maes as the most fashionable painter in Amsterdam. In his genre paintings, which are in the tradition of the 'Fine' Leiden painters and date for the most part from before 1700, he frequently employed the candlelight effects that his master, Schalcken, made so fashionable. (Copyright © 2002-2008 Bonhams 1793 Ltd., Images and Text All Rights Reserved)

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