Name: ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBEECK ('S HERTOGENBOSCH 1596-1675 ANTWERP)
Brand: Portrait of Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre (1591–1652), three-quarter-length, before an ornate curtain
Price: 45000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBEECK ('S HERTOGENBOSCH 1596-1675 ANTWERP)
Portrait of Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre (1591–1652), three-quarter-length, before an ornate curtain
oil on canvas
50¹⁄₂ x 42¹⁄₄ in. (128.3 x 107.3 cm.)

Eric Kusel, Huskvarna, Sweden, by 1963.
with Wolf Cherrick, Dublin; Christie's, London, 7 April 1966, lot 92 (25 gns. to Dent).

D. Steadman, Abraham Diepenbeeck. Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painter, 1982, p. 91, no. 17.
V. Herremans, Rubens Unveiled. Paintings from Lost Antwerp Churches, Ghent, 2013, pp. 86-7, fig. 90.

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Lot Essay

Born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre was the abbot of St. Michael’s abbey in Antwerp from 1629 until his death in 1652. He was a patron of the arts and wrote a number of ecclesiastical works, including Vita Sancti Norberti, a life of Norbert of Xanten. His portrait was painted by Katharina Pepijn, as well as this fine picture by Diepenbeeck, a pupil and assistant of Rubens, who travelled to Italy and England but spent the majority of his career working in Antwerp.