Portrait of Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff (c. 1573-1609), anonymous, after c. 1607

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff (c. 1573-1609)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1469

Inscriptions / marks

coat of arms, upper left: a reversed gold or red horseshoe on a black (?) field. Crest: an arm of a natural (?) colour holding a silver dagger pointing downwards. Mantling: black lined with gold (?)

Description

Portret van Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff (c. 1573-1609). Kapitein (1600) en commandeur (1607) bij de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vermoord op Banda. Buste, bijna aanziend. Om de borst een veelvoudige gouden keten met medaillon, rechts op de achtergrond een zeegezicht met schepen. Linksboven het familiewapen.

Creation

Artist

painter: anonymous

Dating

after c. 1607

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 56 cm × width 48 cm × thickness 3.3 cm (incl. backboard)
outer size: depth 5.4 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Who

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Jul-1888

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; from A.A. Vorsterman van Oyen, The Hague, fl. 11.80, as an 18th-century copy, to the museum, 1888{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 168, no. 329 (19 June 1888); RANH, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, pp. 188-89, no. 425 (14 July 1888); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 168, no. 339 (21 July 1888, no. 1512); RANH, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, p. 190, no. 430 (25 July 1888).}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 484, 485
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

Persistent URL

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