Artist: Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn
tanggal: 1633
ukuran: 30 x 25 cm
Teknik: Oil On Panel
The Leeuwarden Series: Foreigners in the Service of the States-General The German aristocrat Philips, Count of Hohenlohe zu Langenburg came to the Netherlands in 1575 to serve in the guerrilla forces of William the Silent. He had early military successes at Geertruidenberg (1576), Krimpen, Steenbergen, Tholen and ’s-Hertogenbosch (1577). William appointed him lieutenant-general of the States army after the Union of Utrecht (1579). In this capacity, he took part in numerous battles, often victoriously despite his lack of clear leadership, constant drunkenness and fits of anger. During the governorship of the Earl of Leicester, whom he bitterly opposed, Philips refused the commission of commander-in-chief of the States army, but remained one of the most prominent military commanders of the northern Netherlands. He also served under Maurits, whose scientific approach to warfare was completely foreign to him. The animosity between the two men took on a personal dimension when Philips, as the husband of Maurits’s eldest sister Maria, Countess of Buren, became entangled in the squabbles over their father’s inheritance.43 The prototype for this portrait has not been located. Another replica of the same prototype in Buren is signed ‘I. de Jager’, and shows Philips at three-quarter length.44 While the identification of the author of the prototype of the Buren painting as Paulus Moreelse is certainly incorrect, Van Luttervelt has suggested that the prototype of its pendant showing Maria, Countess of Buren was perhaps painted by Daniël van den Queborn.45 The latter suggestion must remain hypothetical until the prototype resurfaces. Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 383.
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