Painting snatched up
Art patron rescues old Dutch master
Once again, the "hunter of lost treasures" has now unearthed a valuable piece - a painting by a pupil of Rembrandt!
"I was immediately and literally immersed in Jan Griffier's river landscape and am still there in my mind," enthuses and philosophizes antiques dealer Josef Renz from Kreisbach near Wilhelmsburg in the district of St. Pölten. What makes him so ecstatic and artistically excited is a special painting by the Dutch master, who lived from 1645 to 1718 and - curiously enough - last lived on a yacht on which he sailed up and down the Thames.
He mainly painted landscapes of Italian ruins from on board, but also the riverscapes of the Rhine and the beautiful river that flows eternally through London.
"Inestimable value"
Griffier had previously taken lessons in Amsterdam from the greatest artists of the time, such as Lingelbach, Ruysdael, his landscape painter friend Jan Looten, whom he followed to England, and even Rembrandt. "Traces of his role models can be seen in all his works," says the internationally renowned patron of the arts about his protégé. When asked about the value of the piece, Renz says cryptically: "Priceless!"
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