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Portrait of Henrick Hooft
Also titled Portret van Henrick Hooft
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (Delft, 1567–1641)
1640
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 9.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer J.S.R. van de Poll, Arnhem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The demand for portraits in the Netherlands was great in the 17th century. Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt was the most productive and successful portraitist in Delft: according to a somewhat exaggerated contemporary account, the artist painted around 10,000 portraits. His fame extended beyond the city limits. Both in their twenties, Henrick Hooft and Aegje Hasselaer of Amsterdam had themselves eternalized in paint by him on the occasion of their marriage.
