Portrait of Bartholomeus Andrio Walsdorffer (?-1622), anonymous, c. 1605 - c. 1615

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Bartholomeus Andrio Walsdorffer (?-1622)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1230

Inscriptions / marks

inscription, top left: ‘CAP,N. WALSDORP[…]R’ (The N and the R are in superscript.)

Description

Portret van Bartolomeus Andrio Walsdorffer (?-1622). Kapitein van een compagnie Zwitsers ter repartitie van Friesland. Gesneuveld bij Bergen op Zoom. Kniestuk, staand, de rechterhand steunend op een stok, de linkerhand in de zij.

Creation

Artist

painter: anonymous

Dating

c. 1605 - c. 1615

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 120.5 cm × width 93 cm
outer size: depth 6 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

historical persons

When

1600 - 1622

Where

Bergen op Zoom

Who

Bartolomeus Andrio Walsdorffer

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transfer 21-Jul-1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; ? estate inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 16 August 1633, large blue room (‘Veertien stuck schildereien van capiteinen’), and the room next to the large room (‘Seeventien schildereien van capiteinen en ritmeisters.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 53.} inventory of paintings, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, c. 1800, Garde du Corps Hall (‘16. Capt Welsdorp’);{Tresoar, Leeuwarden, Familiearchief Van Eysinga-Vegelin van Claerbergen, inv. no. 536; Mulder-Radetzky 1997, pp. 197, 203.}...; Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885; on loan to the Nederlands Legermuseum, Delft, 1953-2000

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

De Nimègue à Java : les soldats suisses au service de la Hollande XVIIe - XXe siècles, Sébastien Rial, afb. p. 29
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 483
Maurits Prins van Oranje

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7231

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