Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt
in of na ca. 1616
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
48.7; 62.5; 8.5
About this artwork
support: height 62.5 cm x width 48.7 cm
About the Artist
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt · 1567–1641
Son of the goldsmith Jan Michielsen van Miereveldt and a pupil (when he was 12 years old) of Antonio Blocklandt (known as Montfort) in Utrecht and later of Willem Willemsz. It is very difficult to distinguish his work from the innumerable copies of his paintings that he allowed to be made, even sometimes signing them with his own name. Basically a portrait painter, he also painted historical and ...