Portrait of Jan de Bray

anonymous, 1800 - 1900

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1940-465
  • Dimensionsheight 149 mm x width 110 mm
  • Physical characteristicspencil

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Portrait of Jan de Bray

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1940-465

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    • draftsman (artist): anonymous
    • after drawing by Dirck de Bray (possibly)

  • Dating

    1800 - 1900

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pencil

  • Dimensions

    height 149 mm x width 110 mm

Explanatory note

  • Kopie naar prent (?)

This work is about

  • Person

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1940

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 (1 December) November 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} from the auction house F. Muller, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum, 1940, with support from the F.G. Waller-fonds

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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anonymous, after Dirck de Bray

Portrait of Jan de Bray

1800 - 1900

Inscriptions

  • inscribed lower right, in pencil, Jan de. Bray

Provenance

…; sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 (1 December) November 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;1Copy RKD. from the auction house F. Muller, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum, 1940, with support from the F.G. Waller-fonds

Object number: RP-T-1940-465

Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Entry

This is a copy of a portrait drawing of Jan de Bray (1627-1697) by his brother Dirck de Bray (c. 1635-1694), possibly the sheet in black and white chalk on blue paper in the Noord-Hollandsarchief, Haarlem (inv. no. 49350),2Cf. https://www.geschiedenislokaal023.nl/bronnen/jan-de-bray/. which is inscribed on the mount, JAN DE BRAY SCHILDER, Zoon van Salomon de Bray. / Dirck de Bray pinx: 1675. Possibly either that drawing or the present copy was later used as the basis of a wood engraving (1841-42), in reverse, by the German Monogrammist M (e.g. inv. no. RP-P-OB-31.668). If the Noord-Hollandsarchief drawing is by Dirck, it may have served him for his depiction of Jan holding a drawing pad on the left of Jan’s signed and dated painting of that year, the Portrait of the Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, in the Rijksmuseum (inv. no. SK-A-58). For his part, Jan was responsible for the portraits of four of the seven sitters, including that of his brother Dirck (seated at the far right of the picture).

Jane Shoaf Turner, 2025

Citation

J. Shoaf Turner, 2025, 'anonymous, Portrait of Jan de Bray, 1800 - 1900', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200140943

(accessed 3 augustus 2026 12:09:24 UTC+0).

Footnotes

  • 1Copy RKD.
  • 2Cf. https://www.geschiedenislokaal023.nl/bronnen/jan-de-bray/.