VICTOR WOLFVOET the Younger (1612 Antwerp 1652) Achilles and the Daughters of Leukymedes. Oil on wood. Inscribed verso: Sketch by Rubens given to Emily Schmäck in London by Mr Louis Lemmé of A...t...f. 48.5 × 64 cm. Provenance: - Louis Lemmé Collection (labelled on verso). - Emily Schmäck Collection, London (labelled verso). - European private collection. Two works by the Antwerp painter Victor Wolfvoet the Younger are offered in this auction, presenting his characteristic painting style in a virtuoso manner. Victor Wolfvoet the Younger, who was probably apprenticed to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), was active both as a painter and as an art dealer. He adopted numerous depictions by his prominent contemporaries, including Anthonis van Dyck (1599-1641) and Peter Paul Rubens, and lent them his own unique style of painting. In the composition presented here, Wolfvoet draws on a prototype by Anthonis van Dyck, which is in the Kunstsammlungen Graf von Schönborn, Schloss Weissenstein in Pommersfelden (inv. no. 43, see Susan J. Barnes / Nora De Poorter, et al. 2004: Van Dyck. A Complete catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven / London 2004, cat. no. III.58). Van Dyck's counterpart "Amarillis and Mirtillo" (Kunstsammlungen Graf von Schönborn, Schloss Weissenstein in Pommersfelden, inv. no. 43, see Susan J. Barnes / Nora De Poorter, et al. 2004: Van Dyck. A Complete catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven / London 2004, cat. no. III.60) repeated Victor Wolfvoet's characteristic painting style. Another version of the composition by Victor Wolfvoet the Younger shown here, painted on copper, can be found in the Museum Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden in Leerdam (see Bert Schepers and Gregory Martin: Two Antwerp cabinets decorated by Victor Wolfvoet II, in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. 158, no. 1363, October 2016, p. 801) and documents the great demand for these depictions in the first half of the 17th century. Dr Bert Schepers confirms the authenticity on the basis of a photograph, for which we thank him. See also catalogue entry for lot 3034. These objects marked with * (asterisk) are fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.