(Antwerp 1582/83–1666 Haarlem)
Portrait of Pieter Christiaensz. Bor (1559–1635)
with monogram lower right: FH.; and inscribed upper left and right: AEta. 75., An. 1634.,
oil on canvas, 22.5 x 19.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Collection of Emil Benedikt Goldschmidt (1848–1908), Frankfurt am Main, Hessen;
his sale, Lepke, Berlin, 27 April 1909, lot 32 (as Frans Hals);
Collection of Bernhard Koehler (1849–1927), Berlin;
Collection of Gertrude Elisabeth Mazur (1889–1969), Gera, Surbiton, Beverly Hills;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1954, lot 41 (as Frans Hals, sold for 280 guineas to Hallsborough);
Collection of Antenor Patiño Rodriguez (1896–1982), New York;
his sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 16 (as after Frans Hals);
private collection;
sale, Kunstversteigerungshaus Horst Viktor Rothmar, Horst, 9 April 1994 (as Frans Hals);
where acquired by the present owner

Exhibited:
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Gemälde Alter Meister Aus Berliner Besitz (vorwiegend aus dem Besitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins), July – August 1925, cat. no. 172 (as Frans Hals)

Literature:
s.a., Gemälde Alter Meister Aus Berliner Besitz (vorwiegend aus dem Besitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins), exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1925, p. 31, cat. no. 172 (as Frans Hals);
S. Slive, Frans Hals, Vol III, Bristol 1974, mentioned under no. L 11, p. 121 (as copy nr. 4)

According to Seymour Slive the present painting is after a now lost original by Frans Hals which was formerly conserved at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. The prototype was one of 300 paintings lost in a disastrous fire on 16 February 1864. Slive furthermore notices how the present composition does not include the book seen in the other versions (see Slive, 1974, pp. 120-121).

The present painting is listed in the RKD database under nos. 0000339368 and 0000339366 (as after Frans Hals (I)).