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Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola
Also titled Portret van Ambrogio Spinola
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (Delft, 1567–1641)
1609
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 119 cm x width 87.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Between 1601 and 1627 Ambrogio Spinola is by far the most important general of the Spanish army. During the Siege of Ostend, which lasts from 1601 to 1604, Spinola provides not only his services, but also his money for this cause. These additional means are most welcome, for now he can pay his troops should the funds from Spain be delayed. Under his command the Spanish army recaptures Oldenzaal and Groenlo, and in 1625 even the most important fortified city, Breda.
