Portrait of Maerten Ruychaver (1545-1626)
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt
na 1653
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
62.5; 79.5; 5.5
About this artwork
wapen (heraldiek), in de rechter bovenhoek
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 ...