LONDON.- Following a successful 2015, The Weiss Gallery - leading dealer in Tudor, Stuart and Northern European Old Master portraiture - returns to TEFAF Maastricht (11-20 March 2016) with several new exciting discoveries. Amongst this year’s highlights is an extremely fine portrait by Paulus Moreelse depicting a lady from one of seventeenth-century Utrecht’s most noble families. Dressed in a richly embroidered gold and black dress, in the highest fashion of the day, Emerentia de la Kethulle, nee van Ravenswaay (1593 – 1634) is a remarkable costume piece, as well as a finely observed portrait.

True to The Weiss Gallery’s roots, there will be exceptional examples of Tudor & Stuart portraiture at TEFAF. These include depictions of Sir Francis Drake’s brother Thomas, the controversial Earl of Essex and various members of the landed gentry by the likes of Hieronimo Custodis, Marcus Gheeraerts and William Larkin.

The gallery will bring further fine examples of Dutch and Flemish masters, including works by the Pourbus family, George Geldorp and notably a recently discovered fragment by Sir Anthony van Dyck. The piece represents the head of Jupiter from one of the artist’s most celebrated, and early, mythological subjects, Jupiter and Antiope. Intriguingly, this work is thought to have once belonged to his master Sir Peter Paul Rubens and demonstrates Van Dyck’s instinctive brushwork.

Celebrating the gallery’s 30th anniversary, owner Mark Weiss is “proud to bring a selection of museum-quality masterpieces to TEFAF.” The Weiss Gallery has made many notable sales that now grace distinguished private and public collections around the world, including Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Australia.