Design for the Funeral Monument of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp

Rombout Verhulst, c. 1654

In the 17th century, the State came to be an important commissioner of public funerary monuments for ‘national heroes’. Grand tombs were ordered especially after 1650, when various naval battles were fought against the English. Rombout Verhulst was the leading specialist in funerary monuments. He also made the tomb for Lieutenant-Admiral Maerten Tromp (1598–1653) in Delft, for which this terracotta is a design.

  • Artwork typesculpture, sketch, model, pedestal
  • Object numberBK-NM-2919
  • Dimensionslength 62 cm (recumbent figure), length 64 cm x depth 24 cm (socle)
  • Physical characteristicsterracotta, black-lacquered pinewood (socle)

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Design for the Funeral Monument of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp
    • Model for the Tomb Monument of Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Harpertsz Tromp (1598-1653) in the Oude Kerk in Delft
  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-2919

  • Inscriptions / marks

    inscription, on the wooden socle, in gold-coloured paint: ‘Dus rust dien grooten Tromp die Spangiens gansche Macht / In tien iaar toe gherust in Duyns te gronde Bracht / En SCHEV’LINGH sagh voortlaast de Britse vloot Verplet / Had tnoot lot syne Doot maar enen dach Verset’

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Creation

  • Creation

    sculptor: Rombout Verhulst, Amsterdam

  • Dating

    c. 1654

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    terracotta, black-lacquered pinewood (socle)

  • Dimensions

    • length 62 cm (recumbent figure)
    • length 64 cm x depth 24 cm (socle)

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  • Period

    1650 - 1653


Acquisition and rights

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  • Provenance

    Commissioned by the States General, 1654;{An almost complete transcription of the resolutions of the States General concerning the commissioning of the tomb is preserved at the Huisarchief Kasteel Twickel in Delden. These accompany the resolutions concerning the building of the tomb of Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam (no. PW 259, resolutions of 4 March and 15 July 1667), see F. Scholten, _Sumptuous Memories: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tomb Sculpture_, Zwolle 2003, p. 262 (note 95).} ? donated to Maarten Tromp’s widow Cornelia Teding van Berkhout (1614-1680), c. 1654/58; …; ? sale collection Jeronimus Tonneman, Amsterdam (De Leth), 21 October 1754, p. 10, no. 23, fl. 9.50, to Punt;{Copy RMA.} …; ? sale collection Johan Antony van Kinschot (1708-1766), Delft, 5 January 1767;{Possibly _de oude adm. T. liggend op voetstuk_ (the old adm. T. lying on a socle), mentioned in the Van Kinschot Family Archive, preserved at the Stadsarchief Delft, archive no. 847, inv. nos. 314 (inventory of possessions) and 320 (painting collection catalogue). Johan Antony’s father, the Delft sheriff Caspar van Kinschot (1676-1759), received a bequest from Joanna Maria Gans-Tromp (1644-1717), the naval hero’s daughter. See ibid. inv. no. 257 (transcript of the declaration of the opening of her will by the aldermen of Helmond from 1763).} …; ? sale collection Cornelia Hartoog-van Kinschot, Delft, 11 April-2 August 1788, p. 22, no. 58,{Stadsarchief Delft, archive no. 847 (Van Kinschot Family Archive), no. 354 (sale catalogue of her possessions, 1788).} ? fl. 40 to Jonkheer J.C. van Alderwereld van Heenvliet, The Hague;{Ibid. For Alderwereld in relation to funerary tombs, see: _Nieuwe Nederlandsche bibliotheek_ […], vol. 2, Rotterdam 1782, p. 514.} …; from the estate of Neville Davison Goldsmid (1814-1875), The Hague, acquired by the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885


Documentation

    • Documentatiemap Beeldhouwkunst & Kunstnijverheid.
    • D. van der Kellen, 'Het Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst te 's Gravenhage', Eigen Haard (1879), p. 154.

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