Portrait of Cornelis van Aerssen (1600/02-1662), Lord of Sommelsdijk

• Portrait of Cornelis van Aerssen (1600/02-1662), Lord of Sommelsdijk
• Cornelis van Aerssen (1600-62), Lord of Sommelsdijk, Colonel of Cavalry

SK-A-1670

Portret van Cornelis van Aerssen, heer van Sommelsdijk, kolonel bij de cavalerie. Heupstuk, staande in wapenrusting met de commadostaf in de rechterhand. Rechts een landschap. Linksboven het familiewapen Van Aerssen / Wernhout, omgeven door de keten met de penning van de Orde van St. Michiel, daaronder een banderol met opschrift.

• inscription, upper left, on the banderole: ‘Corn: Van Aerssen Heere van / Sommelsdijck van de ordre der / Ridderschap van Hollandt / etc. overleden: 1662’
• coat of arms, top left: quartered. 1 and 4: a saltire chequered black and silver over a horizontal black bar, on a gold field. 2 and 3: three black martlets on a gold field. The coat is set in a chain with the medal of the French order of St Michael.
• signature and date, lower left, on the pillar: ‘Anº 1658 / Adr: Hanneman. F:’

painter: Adriaen Hanneman

1658

oil on canvas

• support: height 122.7 cm x width 98 cm
• outer size: depth 7.5 cm (support incl. frame)

1600 - 1662

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

• purchase 1896-03
• purchase 2016-01-14
• interne vervaardiging 1896-03
• interne vervaardiging 2016-01-14

Public domain

? Commissioned by or for the sitter; ? by descent to his great-granddaughter, Elisabeth Louisa Pieck, née Van Aerssen (1714-after 1750), Brakel Manor, near Zaltbommel; ? her son, Anne Frans Willem Pieck (1736-c. 1780), with Brakel Manor; ? by whom sold to Wilhelmus Wilhelmus (1720-1771), with Brakel Manor, 1768; ? his niece, Maria Aletta van Dam, née Van Wageningen (1759-1828), with Brakel Manor, 1781; ? her son, Wilhelmus van Dam (1779-1858), with Brakel Manor, 1828, or bought by him; ? transferred to Huis Het Spijker, Brakel; ? his wife, née Ditmars van IJsselvere; transferred to The Hague, 1858; sale, C. Schiffer van Bleiswijk et al. [section dowager of W. van Dam van Brakel], The Hague (C. van Doorn), 14 December 1874 _sqq._, no. 79 (‘Cornelis van Aerssen, Heer van Sommelsdijk; beschr. in de ridderschap van Holland en West-Friesland, Gouverneur van Nijmegen, Kolonel bij de cavalerie. Overl. 1662.’), probably bought in; on loan from the dowager of Wilhelmus van Dam van Brakel to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1886-95;{A. Bredius and C. Hofstede de Groot, _Musée Royal de La Haye (Mauritshuis): Catalogue raisonné des tableaux et des sculptures_, coll. cat. The Hague 1895, p. 143, no. 588; _Verslagen omtrent ’s Rijks verzamelingen van geschiedenis en kunst_ 1895 (annual report of the Rijksmuseum), p. 66.} her sale et al., Amsterdam (Lokaal De Zon), 29 October 1895;{Note RMA; the sale catalogue has not been located.}…; from the dealer M.J. van Gelder, Amsterdam, fl. 272.30, to the museum, with two other paintings,{For these two pictures, SK-A-1671 and SK-A-1672, see Entry.} through the mediation of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 12 December 1895{NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 290, pp. 165-66, no. 1335 (27 November 1895), p. 168, no. 1341 (12 December 1895).}

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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