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Jan Six

Jonkheer Jan Six XI (Amsterdam 1978), grew up in the family house on the Amstel river, amidst the 17th century art collection of his family. In 1998 he studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. After a brief internship with Bob Haboldt & Co. in Paris and a yearlong internship at the Amsterdam Historical Museum under Drs. Norbert Middelkoop, he finished his studies in 2004. In his final thesis he researched the literary sources on the oeuvre of the painter Carel Fabritius (1622-1654), a pupil of Rembrandt.

In 2004 he started with Sotheby’s in London, where he joined the Old Master Paintings team of Alex Bell and George Gordon. In the following year he worked with Richard Charlton-Jones on the legendary Prince of Hanover sale at Schloss Marienburg. After two years he changed the English office of Sotheby’s for the Amsterdam office.
In May 2007 he became the head of the Old Master Paintings department, following Drs. Baukje Coenen. In this period he discovered an important work by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, currently in the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp and one of the earliest works by the Leiden painter Jan Lievens. This painting was sold for the highest price ever achieved at a public sale for a work of Art in the Netherlands.
The crown on his young career was helping discover the early self-portrait by Rembrandt, sold at a regional auction house in the UK. In 2009 Jan Six decided to start his own gallery on the Herengracht in Amsterdam.