Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft, Werner van den Valckert, 1617

Identification

Title(s)

Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft
Portrait of a man with ring and touchstone, probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft (1585-1658)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-3920

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, bottom centre: ‘W.v. Valckert / fe. 1617’
label, on the reverse: ‘[...] de Van Wely peint après sa mort. La bibliographie de Van Mander [...] que Jan van Wely était un [...] a été assassiné le 1 Mai 1616 à la Haye au Binnenhof.’ ([...] van Wely, painted after his death. Van Mander’s bibliography [...] that Jan van Wely was a [...] was assassinated on 1 May 1616 at the Binnenhof in The Hague.)

Description

Portret van een man met een ring en toetssteen, waarschijnlijk Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft (1585-1658), goudsmid te Leiden. Ten halven lijve, voorover gebogen uit een venster geleund, een ring in de rechterhand en een toetssteen in de linkerhand.

Creation

Artist

painter: Werner van den Valckert (signed by artist)

Dating

1617

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 66 cm × width 49.5 cm

Subject

What

Who

Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Feb-1957

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft (1585-1658), Leiden; ? his son, Jan van Assendelft (1620-68), Leiden; ? his son, Barthout Jansz van Assendelft (1659-1722), Leiden; ? or his son, Adriaan van Assendelft (1626-97), Leiden; ? his son, Jan Adriaansz van Assendelft (1659-1728), Leiden; ? his son, Adriaan van Assendelft (1691-1752), Leiden; ? his son, Barthout Adriaansz van Assendelft (1733-84), Leiden; ? the daughter of his half-sister, Maria Anna Pompe van Slingelandt (1746-1805), the wife of Hugo de Wildt, Leiden; ? by descent to Frans de Wildt (1805-69), Leiden; ? Agnes W. de Wildt (1835-1905), Leiden; her daughter, Jonkvrouw Isabella F. Mollerus (1863-1920), Leiden, wife of Baron Dirk van Asbeck; his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 30 November 1920, no. 1015, to Antoon van Welie (1866-1956), The Hague; from his estate, fl. 7,500, to the museum, 1957{Provenance reconstructed in Ekkart 1999, pp. 20-25.}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 370
Nederland in de Gouden Eeuw, p.48- 55, p. 48 (afbeelding)
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1600-1700, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Reinier J. Baarsen, Bart Cornelis, Jan Daniël van Dam
Dawn of the Golden Age : northern Netherlandish art 1580-1620 [ : 1 1993a], Ger C.M. Luijten, , , , Marijn Schapelhouman
Een man met ring en toetssteen door Werner van den Valckert, Rudolf E.O. Ekkart
Aanwinsten : 1 januari - 1 juni 1957

Persistent URL

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