Reclusive Rembrandt may be on the market
09/06/2010
What may be Wales’ most valuable painting may be on the move.
Three inquiries have been made this summer regarding the availability of Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (above), on display at Penrhyn Castle in Bangor, Wales, the Liverpool Daily Post reports.
The work, painted in 1657, is valued at at least 40 million pounds, or more than $60 million in US currency. That was the price the Penrhyn Settled Estates wanted for the painting three years ago when the Dutch Culture Ministry tried to buy it for Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
