(Antwerp 1599–1640 London)
Portrait of a young man wearing a hat,
oil on canvas, 46 x 36.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Robert Vinkin (died 1938) Collection, Paris;
his sale, Christie’s, London, 9 December 1929, lot 64 (as Van Dyck), to Stenman;
Collection Dr. Hildebrand, Stockholm;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 November 1970, lot 102 (as Van Dyck);
Private collection, Italy

Literature:
G. Glück, Notes on Van Dyck’s Stay in Italy, in: Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXV, 1939, pp. 207/8, pl. II B (as by Van Dyck, with reference to Ludwig Burchard being the first scholar to recognise it as a work by Van Dyck);
R. Pallucchini, Young Tintoretto, Milan 1950, pp. 163/64;
E. Larsen, The Complete Works of Van Dyck, Milan 1980, vol. II, pp. 145/46, no. 356 (as Sir Anthony van Dyck)

This portrait was first recognized as a Van Dyck by Dr. Ludwig Burchard, and was subsequently published by the renowned Van Dyck expert, Gustav Glück. The whereabouts of the prototype, thought to be by Jacopo Tinoretto, is unknown, but at the time of Glück’s article in the Burlington Magazine it was with Tomas Harris Ltd (illustrated). An attribution to the young Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp), during his Italian sojourn of 1600-1608, has also been suggested.