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The attribution of the present work is not certain. It would appear to have been executed in Antwerp in the 1640s (before 1648) in the style of van Dyck.
If the old identification of the sitter as Ottavio Piccolomini is correct, the present work would be an addition to the iconography of one of the great generals of the Thirty Years War. He was a member of the illustrious Piccolomini family, whose most famous member had been Aeneas Piccolomini, elected to the papacy as Pius II. A protégé of Immanuel Wallenstein, and ultimately, in 1648, commander-in-chief of the forces of the Emperor Ferdinand III, he was two years named an imperial prince. Helmüt Lahrkamp has reviewed the relevant iconography and Piccolomini's connections with the art world, in particular during the time he spent in the service of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Southern Netherlands in the 1630s and 1640s (H. Lahrkamp, 'A Portrait of the painter Jan Boeckhorst and the Imperial military commander Ottavio Piccolomini's contacts to the art world', in 1648: War and Peace in Europe, eds. K. Bussman and H. Schilling, 1999, vol. II). Dr. Lahrkamp stated that 'we are familiar with his [Piccolomini's] appearance... with his thick black hair and goatee'. The features in the present work seem to agree well enough with those in Gerard Seghers' lost portrait of Piccolomini known by Lucas Vorsterman I's engraving (D. Beinecke, Gerard Seghers 1591-1651, Singen, 1992, no. A.132).
However a word of caution is in order, for Lahrkamp's defining features were not uniquely those of Piccolomini; they were, for instance, shared by another military commander and Knight of the Golden Fleece (from 1632), Ernst, Count of Isenburg (1584-1664), in the engraved portrait by Pieter de Jode I after the Thomas Willeboirts, called Bossehaert (F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings etc. IX, p. 217, no. 112). This must date to more or less the same time as the present work, as the lace collar is very similar. According to the rubric on the print, the sitter was a member of the supreme council of war (in the Southern Netherlands) and captain general.
If the sitter is Piccolomini the portrait can be fairly securely dated as he was appointed a Knight of the Golden Fleece (no. 405) in 1645 and left the Southern Netherlands to take up command of the Imperial army in 1648. That year saw the signing of the Treaty of Münster which brought an end to hostilities and to Piccolomini's military career.
If the old identification of the sitter as Ottavio Piccolomini is correct, the present work would be an addition to the iconography of one of the great generals of the Thirty Years War. He was a member of the illustrious Piccolomini family, whose most famous member had been Aeneas Piccolomini, elected to the papacy as Pius II. A protégé of Immanuel Wallenstein, and ultimately, in 1648, commander-in-chief of the forces of the Emperor Ferdinand III, he was two years named an imperial prince. Helmüt Lahrkamp has reviewed the relevant iconography and Piccolomini's connections with the art world, in particular during the time he spent in the service of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Southern Netherlands in the 1630s and 1640s (H. Lahrkamp, 'A Portrait of the painter Jan Boeckhorst and the Imperial military commander Ottavio Piccolomini's contacts to the art world', in 1648: War and Peace in Europe, eds. K. Bussman and H. Schilling, 1999, vol. II). Dr. Lahrkamp stated that 'we are familiar with his [Piccolomini's] appearance... with his thick black hair and goatee'. The features in the present work seem to agree well enough with those in Gerard Seghers' lost portrait of Piccolomini known by Lucas Vorsterman I's engraving (D. Beinecke, Gerard Seghers 1591-1651, Singen, 1992, no. A.132).
However a word of caution is in order, for Lahrkamp's defining features were not uniquely those of Piccolomini; they were, for instance, shared by another military commander and Knight of the Golden Fleece (from 1632), Ernst, Count of Isenburg (1584-1664), in the engraved portrait by Pieter de Jode I after the Thomas Willeboirts, called Bossehaert (F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings etc. IX, p. 217, no. 112). This must date to more or less the same time as the present work, as the lace collar is very similar. According to the rubric on the print, the sitter was a member of the supreme council of war (in the Southern Netherlands) and captain general.
If the sitter is Piccolomini the portrait can be fairly securely dated as he was appointed a Knight of the Golden Fleece (no. 405) in 1645 and left the Southern Netherlands to take up command of the Imperial army in 1648. That year saw the signing of the Treaty of Münster which brought an end to hostilities and to Piccolomini's military career.