MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT (DELFT 1566-1641)
MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT (DELFT 1566-1641)
MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT (DELFT 1566-1641)
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MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT (DELFT 1566-1641)

Adriana van Ijlen, seated, wearing a fur-trimmed gown and lace cap

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MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT (DELFT 1566-1641)
Adriana van Ijlen, seated, wearing a fur-trimmed gown and lace cap
inscribed and dated 'Aetatis 66 / Anno 1616' (upper left)
oil on panel
45 ¼ x 35 in. (115 x 88.9 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Heer van Bellingen, Amsterdam.
with Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London, by 1896, where acquired by the following,
with Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, where acquired in 1900 by,
Francis Bunker Greene (1844-1911), Boston, and by whose estate gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on 31 August 1911.
Literature
A. Fairbanks, Catalogue of Paintings: Preliminary Edition, Boston, 1921, p. 58, no. 138.
P. Hendy, Selected Oil and Tempera Paintings & Three Pastels, Boston, 1932, n.p., illustrated.
W.G. Constable, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston, 1955, p. 44.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: An Illustrated Summary Guide, Boston, 1985, p. 190, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, A Collection of Portraits of the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1896, no 6.
Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 100 Paintings of Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools, 1896, no. 22.

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Lot Essay

Although Michiel Janz. van Mierevelt studied painting under Anthonie Blocklandt, an artist best known for his religious and mythological scenes, the former found great success as a portraitist. By 1607, he became the official painter to the Stadholder's court in Delft, where he completed portraits for members of the House of Orange-Nassau. His reputation was so esteemed, he set up workshops in both Delft and The Hague to meet demand. His studios were extremely productive, with some five hundred portraits surviving today. When the present portrait was exhibited by Galerie Sedelmeyer in 1896, it was illustrated in the catalogue alongside its presumed pendant, likewise dated 1616.

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