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Summary

Artist J. E. Rentsch, the Elder (d. 1723)
Description
English: Young Johann Sebastian Bach. 1715. Teri Noel Towe seems to demonstrate that the portrait is probably not of Bach .
Date 1715
Medium painting
Unknown
Source/Photographer http://www.npj.com/thefaceofbach/09w624.html

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