Portrait of Philips Willem (1554-1618), Prince of Orange, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, c. 1608

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Philips Willem (1554-1618), Prince of Orange

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-256

Inscriptions / marks

signature, right, on the base of the column: ‘M. Miereveld’

Description

Portret van Philips Willem, prins van Oranje, oudste zoon van Willem van Oranje. Staand, kniestuk, de rechterhand op een wandelstok, de linkerhand rustend op het gevest van zijn zwaard. Links de helm op een tafel.

Creation

Artist

painter: Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (signed by artist)

Dating

c. 1608

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 122.3 cm × width 108.3 cm
outer size: depth 5.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

When

1600 - 1618

Who

Filips Willem (prins van Oranje)

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

nationalization 1795 Sep-1798

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; ? estate inventory, Stadholders’ Quarter in the Binnenhof, The Hague, 1632 (‘Een schilderie van prins Philippe Guillaume hoochloffel. mem. door Mr. Michiel gedaen’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer I, 1974, p. 223, no. 980.} ? estate inventory, Huis Honselaarsdijk, 1755-58, in ’t vertrek no. 29 (Antichambre) (‘Filip Willem grave van Buren, prins van Oranje (geb. 19 dec. 1554, trouwt anno 1606 Eleonora de Bourbon, princesse de Condé, obiit 1618), geschildert door Mireveld’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 507, no. 100.} confiscated by the French and ceded to the Batavian Republic, 1795; transferred to the museum before 9 February 1801;{Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 40, no. 17; Van Thiel 1981a, p. 185, no. 17.} on loan to the Oranje-Nassau Museum, The Hague, 1926-32

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

De portretfabriek van Michiel van Mierevelt (1566-1641), Anita Jansen, Rudolf E.O. Ekkart, Johanneke Verhave, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, p. 92, afb. 9
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 258, 259
De Oranjes : van Willem van Oranje tot erfprinses Amalia, p. 5-13, afb. 3
Maurits Prins van Oranje
De inrichting van de Nationale Konst-Gallery in het openingsjaar 1800, p. 185, cat.nr. 17
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

Persistent URL

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