Portret van Andries van Eertvelt (1590-1652)

anoniem, ca. 1650 - 1700

Portret van de schilder Andries van Eertvelt, zittend werkend aan een schilderij. Penseel in de rechterhand, palet in de linker. Kopie naar het origineel in Augsburg.

  • Soort kunstwerkschilderij
  • ObjectnummerSK-A-847
  • Afmetingendrager: hoogte 113,8 cm x breedte 85,5 cm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenolieverf op doek

anonymous

Portrait of Andries van Eertvelt (1590-1652)

Southern Netherlands, c. 1650 - 1700

Scientific examination and reports

  • technical report: I. Verslype / Z. Benders, RMA, 26 mei 2009

Conservation

  • W.A. Hopman, 1885: lined
  • L. Marchand: treatment unknown
  • H.H. Mertens, 1960: ornamenten van lijst gerestaureerd

Provenance

…; anonymous sale [? S.L. Cobetz, Middelburg], Amsterdam (Roos), 31 December 1884, no. 241, as unknown (‘Portrait of a painter’), fl. 26, to the dealer Rotteveel, for the museum;1NHA, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, pp. 9-10, no. 56 (27 December 1884). on loan through the DRVK, since 1953

Object number: SK-A-847


Entry

The present portrait is seemingly a copy, perhaps from the later decades of the seventeenth century, of the central part of a large picture at Augsburg2E. Schaeffer, Van Dyck: Des Meisters Gemälde in 537 Abbildungen, Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben XIII, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1909, p. 250; Katalog der Königl. filial-Gemäldegalerie zu Augsburg, coll. cat. (Munich) 1912, no. 2471, now Staatsgalerie in der Kunsthalle Augsburg, Augsburg (RKD). which shows the artist full length seated at his easel. The status of the prototype is itself uncertain; traditionally attributed to Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641),3C. Quaeitzsch, ‘Die Dusseldorfer Galerie’, in R. Baumstark (ed.), Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder, I: Sammler und Mäzen, II: Galerie und Kabinette, exh. cat. Munich (Alte Pinakothek) 2009, pp. 9-155, II, p. 48, no. 83 as Van Dyck. doubts were rightly cast on the attribution of this work as early as 1912 and it has subsequently been little discussed in the literature on Van Dyck.4Rejected by E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, 2 vols., Freren 1988, no. A 137; the inscription is given in full by E. Langenstein, Spurensuche – Bilder der Alten Pinakothen in neuen Licht: Eine Ausstellung Bayerischer Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 1997, no. 7; her reading of it is questionable. By comparison with the engraved portrait in Van Dyck’s Iconography, it can certainly be stated that the sitter is the Antwerp marine painter Andries van Eertvelt (1590-1652);5S. Turner and C. Depauw, The new Hollstein Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Anthony van Dyck, 7 vols., Rotterdam 2002, II, no. 60. there the sitter is similarly depicted, but in the opposite direction, without a sword and half-length standing before open sea.

Until the status of the Augsburg portrait is clarified, the present work is best described as from the southern Netherlands.

Gregory Martin, 2022


Literature

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, 2 vols., Freren 1988, no. A. 187


Collection catalogues

1888, p. 39, no. 312 (as after Van Dyck); 1903, p. 91, no. 859; 1976, p. 210, no. A 847 (as after Anthony van Dyck)


Citation

G. Martin, 2022, 'anonymous, Portrait of Andries van Eertvelt (1590-1652), Southern Netherlands, c. 1650 - 1700', in Flemish Paintings in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200108620

(accessed 10 December 2025 21:25:03).

Footnotes

  • 1NHA, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, pp. 9-10, no. 56 (27 December 1884).
  • 2E. Schaeffer, Van Dyck: Des Meisters Gemälde in 537 Abbildungen, Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben XIII, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1909, p. 250; Katalog der Königl. filial-Gemäldegalerie zu Augsburg, coll. cat. (Munich) 1912, no. 2471, now Staatsgalerie in der Kunsthalle Augsburg, Augsburg (RKD).
  • 3C. Quaeitzsch, ‘Die Dusseldorfer Galerie’, in R. Baumstark (ed.), Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder, I: Sammler und Mäzen, II: Galerie und Kabinette, exh. cat. Munich (Alte Pinakothek) 2009, pp. 9-155, II, p. 48, no. 83 as Van Dyck.
  • 4Rejected by E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, 2 vols., Freren 1988, no. A 137; the inscription is given in full by E. Langenstein, Spurensuche – Bilder der Alten Pinakothen in neuen Licht: Eine Ausstellung Bayerischer Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 1997, no. 7; her reading of it is questionable.
  • 5S. Turner and C. Depauw, The new Hollstein Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Anthony van Dyck, 7 vols., Rotterdam 2002, II, no. 60.