Portrait of Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), Count of Nassau, Nicknamed in Frisian ‘us heit’ (our father), Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (workshop of), 1609

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), Count of Nassau, Nicknamed in Frisian ‘us heit’ (our father)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-525

Inscriptions / marks

inscription and date, centre left, indistinct: ‘AEta. 50 Aº 1609 / mirevelt’
inscription, top: ‘Graef Wilhelm Lodewijck van Nassau Stadhouder / AEtatis 60 obijt in Leeuwaden. Aº 1604’ (Count Wilhelm Lodewijck of Nassau, Stadholder Died in Leeuwarden in 1604 aged 60)

Description

Portret van Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), graaf van Nassau, genaamd 'us heit'. Buste naar rechts, in wapenrusting. Onderdeel van de reeks portretten afkomstig uit het Stadhouderlijk Hof te Leeuwarden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (workshop of)

Dating

1609

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 29.8 cm × width 24.1 cm

Subject

What

historical persons

When

1600 - 1620

Who

Willem Lodewijk graaf van Nassau-Dillenburg

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

nationalization 1795 1795

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by or for Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), Stadholder of Friesland; inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 16 August 1633, furniture room (‘Graeff Willem Lodewick van Nassau’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 39, no. 176.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 12-14 and 27 September 1731, furniture attic (‘Veertig kleine portraitjes gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 418, no. 869.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1764, furniture attic (‘Tweeënveertig kleine portraitjes, gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 74, no. 1157.}...; first recorded in the museum in 1800/01;{Van Thiel 1981a, p. 191, nos. 50-63, p. 192, nos. 65-78, 79-92.} on loan to the Oranje-Nassau Museum, The Hague, 1926-32

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 451, 452
Op de zeef van de tijd : een geschiedenis van Nederland
H. Brand en J.W. Koopmans, 'Willem Lodewijk, Stadhouder en strateeg (1560-1620-2020)’, Hilversum 2020, p. 106

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6846

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