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Lot 57
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Studio of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
  • portrait of Paulus van Beresteyn (1548-1628), mayor of Delft, half length, wearing a black shirt and white ruff
  • oil on panel

Provenance

Private Collection, Sweden.

Catalogue Note

A studio copy after Mierevelt's original which hangs with its pendant, a portrait of Beresteyn's wife, in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (see P. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1976, p. 383, cat. no. A 908).