Portret van Willem Lodewijk (1560-1620), graaf van Nassau, bijgenaamd in het Fries 'us heit' (onze vader)
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
29.8; 24.1
About this artwork
inscriptie, boven: ‘Graef Wilhelm Lodewijck van Nassau Stadhouder / AEtatis 60 obijt in Leeuwaden. Aº 1604’
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 ...