Balthasar Denner
Hamburg 1685 - 1749 Rostock
Portrait of the Artists’ Son Jacob Denner, 1734
Oil on copper
34 x 20,1 cm
Signed and dated lower left: "Denner 1734”
PROVENANCE:
Gottfried Christoph Beireis (1730 – 1809), Helmstedt, Germany (see inscriptions on the frames)
Private collection, American Midwest
Collection Richard D. Pomeroy, Pasadena, California
Jacob Denner (1722-1765), Balthasar Denner’s only son, also worked as a painter in his fathers workshop. A painting (64 x 77 cm) by him, kept in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, shows the whole Denner family.
Dr. Friederike Drinkuth, Schwerin, kindly helped documenting these paintings.
Together with the Portrait of the Artists’ Daughter, Katharina Denner (see here)
Ute Mannhardt will include both paintings in her catalogue raisonné, currently in preparation.
€ 28.000 (as a pair)