Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)

Portrait of Willem Thielen (1596-1638), Reverend Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church of London, Austin Friars, half-length, in black with a ruff, in a feigned marbled oval

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Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)
Portrait of Willem Thielen (1596-1638), Reverend Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church of London, Austin Friars, half-length, in black with a ruff, in a feigned marbled oval
signed and dated 'C.J. fecit- 1634' (lower right); inscribed 'MATH.II.28.29. IN CHRISTIE RVSTE ICK MY VERLVSTE' (upper right); with coat-of-arms and further inscribed 'WILHELMVS THIELEN 1634' and 'Æt Suæ.38' (upper left)
oil on panel
30 7/8 x 24½ in. (78.5 x 62.2 cm.)

來源

Acquired from Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in 1913, by Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray.

出版

Cowdray Park Catalogue, London, 1919, p. 4, no. 8 (in the Buck Hall).
C. Anson, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of The Viscount Cowdray, London, 1971, p. 2, no. 7, plate 11 (in the Vestibule).

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Born in Middelburg, Willem Thielen was the Reverend Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church of London, Austin Friars, between 1624 and 1628. The original church was a monastic foundation and the Dutch connection goes back to 1550 when King Edward VI gave Protestant refugees from the Netherlands permission to establish their own parish. As such it was the oldest Dutch-language Protestant church in the world. The church was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940 and a new church was built in 1950 to the design of Arthur Bailey. Thielen's wife Maria de Fraye (for whom see the following lot), was the granddaughter of the Middelburg merchant and humanist Johan Radermacher the elder (1538-1617). His wife's grandfather was also closely involved in the early reformed congregations of London, Aachen and Middelburg as a deacon and elder and the latter's remarkable library of some 1500 items, which reflected his deep theological interests, was sold by auction at his house in Middelburg on 7 August 1634, with a catalogue compiled by Hans van der Hellen. William Thielen also formed a library which was sold by auction in Middelburg in 1640 with a catalogue compiled by van de Hellen.
Jonson, who was himself baptised at Austin Friars, is recorded as working in England between circa 1618 and 1643, before moving to the Netherlands in 1643, settling first in Middelburg. We are grateful to Jan van Helmont for his assistance in researching the sitter.