Claus Storkenbecker... (after Hopfer's portrait of Kunz von der Rosen)

 

Daniel Hopfer

 

c. 1518 /printed later 

etching 

6 3/8 x 4 1/2" platemark 

printer's signature in plate, lower center (Albert Crantz/Krantz) 

not applicable 

title engraved in plate beneath portrait 

Bartsch 87 (reverse copy of Hopfer's original full portrait before the oval frame) 

antique laid 

 

not stated 

23597 

$500.00 

This portrait was originally executed as a waist-up portrait in rectangular format by the artist Daniel Hopfer, circa 1518, of Kunz von der Rosen, the advisor to German King Maximilian I. It appears, however, that the image was usurped by an enterprisiing art dealer - perhaps Albert Crantz (also spelled Krantz) - in order to portray the infamous pirate Klaus Stortebeker (Claus Sortenbecher) in 1682 for commercial purposes.