| Dutch: Portret van een man met de handen in de zij | |
 Portrait of a man with arms akimbo | |
| Artist | Rembrandt |
|---|---|
| Year | 1658 |
| Catalogue | Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: #261 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 107.4 cm × 87 cm (42.3 in × 34 in) |
| Location | Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo, formerly known as Portrait of a Foreign Admiral or Portrait of a Dutch Admiral, is an oil painting portrait by Rembrandt signed and dated 1658. It is now in the collection of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and measures 107.4 cm by 87.0 cm.
The painting was rediscovered in December 2009 after being off public display for around forty years.[1] It was purchased by Steve Wynn at Christie's in December 2009 for £20 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting by Rembrandt.[2][3] In 2011 it was purchased by Isabel and Alfred Bader. They offered it for sale at the 2011 TEFAF art show in Maastricht for 47 million euros.[4][5] The Baders donated the painting to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in December 2015.[6]
- ^ Christie's auction record 8 December 2009
- ^ "Rembrandt sale Masterpiece fetches record £20m". Financial Times. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
- ^ Siegal, Nina. "Queen's University in Canada Gets a Third Rembrandt From Alfred and Isabel Bader". ArtsBeat. The New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ European Fine Art Fair Maastricht in The New York Times, 21 March 2011
- ^ Art sales: Rembrandt's finest portrait article about pending Rembrandt sale in The Telegraph, 2 June 2015, which claims not Bader, but Steve Wynn was the purchaser in 2009 who offered it for sale at TEFAF for £30.5 million
- ^ Kerr, Mark. "'Amazing gift' for Queen's". Queen's Gazette. Retrieved 1 December 2015.