Portret van Maerten Harpertsz Tromp (1598-1653)
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt
after 1640
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.3; 58.8; 5.8
About this artwork
Portret van Maerten Harpertsz Tromp, luitenant-admiraal. Ten halven lijve, op de borst een gouden penning aan een ketting.
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 ...