Artist: Michiel Jansz Van Mierevelt
Date: 1633
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Technique: Oil On Panel
The Leeuwarden Series: Members of the House of Nassau For Ernst Casimir’s biography see the entry on Wybrand de Geest’s portrait of him (SK-A-570). The present portrait is close to the full-length Portrait of Ernst Casimir executed by Van Mierevelt’s studio for Kampen Town Hall in 1625.42 Judging from the lace-trimmed ruff, the prototype by Van Mierevelt for these two portraits, which has not been located, was probably painted in the early 1620s. The attribution to Van Ravesteyn of Ernst Casimir’s portrait in the Leeuwarden Series in past Rijksmuseum catalogues is rejected here. The potential prototype suggests an attribution to Van Mierevelt’s studio, as does the tight, precise modelling of the sitter’s features, which compares well with other portraits in the series attributed to Van Mierevelt’s studio, such as the Portrait of Willem Lodewijk (SK-A-525) and the Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola (SK-A-544). 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. 362.
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