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- Diego Duarte Inventory
by Edgar R. Samuel:
"In 1683, Diego Duarte had prepared an inventory of his stock of some two hundred paintings together with the names of the artists and their cost prices. This inventory is now in the Royal Library in Brussels.1 It was published by Frederick Muller in 18702 and a revised version by Mr. G. Dogaer was republished in the 1971 Jaarboek3.
Before he died (1691), Diego Duarte appointed as his executor and principal heir, the only surviving competent male member of the family, Manuel Levy Duarte of Amsterdam.
At the time of the 1683 inventory the cost price of Diego Duarte's stock of paintings had been over 38,000 Fl. At the time of his death eight years later the collection was smaller by perhaps a third but its value was still substantial. The executors' problem was to realize the collection for the benefit of the estate as quickly as possible and it was difficult to do so.
Early in 1693 Manuel Levy listed the best of the unsold paintings remaining in Diego Duarte's house, together with their recommended retail prices. His descriptions are far less informative than those in the 1683 inventory, which he obviously had to hand, but sometimes they add information. (Diego's) inventory shows him to have been a meticulous and expert dealer. There is something very modern about Diego Duarte's approach to his task. He was prepared to lock up his capital for many years and stood out for good prices and a high profit margin.
It is clear from the two inventories and the records of sales that the seventeenth century art market was a sophisticated one and that success went to the skilful and learned dealer who built up a reputation for reliability and expertise."
- Diego Duarte or Jacob Duarte (1610 - 1690 or 1691) was a 17th-century Portuguese jeweler, banker, composer, organist and art collector living in Antwerp, who owned paintings by Jan Vermeer, Raphael and others.
Diego Duarte was born in Antwerp in 1610 as the son of Gaspar Duarte I, a Christian diamond and art dealer of Jewish descent in Antwerp, who was befriended with e.g. Constantijn Huygens. Gaspar was the son of Diego Duarte I, and was born in 1584 in Antwerp. He later became the consul of Portugal in Antwerp. In 1635, Diego was appointed "jeweller in ordinary" by Charles I of England, but he returned to Antwerp in 1642.[1] He received a part of the art collection of his father on his death in 1653, and continued collecting throughout his life. Part of his collection was sold in Amsterdam in 1682. Diego had a long correspondence and friendship with Constantijn Huygens, Jr.. The house of the Duarte's in Antwerp was called the Antwerp Parnassus, a meeting place for intellectuals to enjoy art and music. William III of England repeatedly stayed at the house between 1674 and 1678. Diego's brother Gaspar Duarte II was an art collector as well, his sister Leonora was a composer, and his other sister Francisca was known as the Nightingale of Antwerp for her singing voice, and was a friend of Maria Tesselschade Visscher and immortalised in a poem by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. After the childless death of Diego Duarte in 1691, no Duartes remained in Antwerp.
Some 200 paintings of Diego's collection were inherited by his nephew Manuel Levy Duarte. Most were sold between 1693 and 1696.
Collection
This incomplete list is based on the inventory of 1682, and uses the attributions given therein for what they're worth.
Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Last Judgment
Jacopo Bassano, 1 piece
Theodoor Boeyermans, 7 pieces
Paris Bordone, 1 piece
Paul Brill, a Pan and 2 other pieces
Adriaen Brouwer, 3 pieces
Jan Brueghel the Elder, 14 pieces
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a version of The Peasant Wedding, a Peasant Dance, and a Flight To Egypt
Caravaggio, 1 piece
Michiel Coxie, a Maria
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 3 pieces
Gerrit Dou, 2 pieces
Adam Elsheimer, 3 pieces
Jan Fyt, 3 pieces
Giorgione, 3 pieces
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1 piece
Jan Mabuse, Portrait of a Praying Man and a portrait of Henry VIII of England and his sisters as children
Quentin Matsys, 4 pieces
Antonis Mor, Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul and five other paintings
Palma Vecchio, 2 pieces
Parmigianino, 4 pieces
Jan Porcellis or Julius Porcellis, 3 pieces
Raphael: Holy Family with Anne (this was judged to be the most valuable painting in the 1682 inventory of Duarte's collection), Sacrifice of Elijah and Vision of Ezekiel
Guido Reni, 1 piece
Jusepe de Ribera, 1 piece
Hans Rottenhammer, 4 pieces: one in collaboration with Paul Brill, two with Jan Brueghel the Elder
Peter Paul Rubens, Opportunity (an important but lost work, known from a few copies), The Prodigal Son (now at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp), 4 other pieces, and two oil sketches
Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, Battle of the Amazons, now in Sanssouci
Rubens and Frans Snyders, Silenus
Rubens and Jan Boeckhorst, 2 paintings
Andrea del Sarto, Anna selbdritt, two other paintings, and two sketches
David Teniers the Younger, Peasant Kermis
Tintoretto, 2 pieces
Titian, a Mary Magdalen and four other works
Jan van Dalen, 2 pieces showing a male and female pilgrim
Anthony Van Dyck, twelve paintings
Jan van Eyck, a King of the Moors
Lucas van Leyden, a Maria
Frans van Mieris the Elder, The Serenade and 1 other piece
Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 4 pieces
Hendrik van Steenwijk II and other members of his family, 3 pieces
Nicolaes van Verendael, 3 pieces
Jan Vermeer, Lady Standing at a Virginal or Lady Seated at a Virginal (the other was owned at the same time by Jacob Dissius)
Wouwerman (unsure which of the three brothers), 8 pieces
- Género: masculino
Nacimiento: 9 de abril de 1612
Muerte: 15 de agosto de 1691
Padre: Gaspar O Duarte
Madre: Catharina Duarte (nacida Rodrigues)
Hermanos/hermanas: Catharina Fernandes [de Leão?] (nacida Duarte), Leonora Duarte, Gaspar Duarte, Francisca Van Blitterwijck (nacida Duarte), Isabella Duarte
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1612 - 1691 (79 años)
Gaspar Duarte y Rodrigues, n. 1584, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgica 
