Portrait of Paulus Cornelisz van Beresteyn (1548-1625)

Portrait of Paulus Cornelisz van Beresteyn (1548-1625)

SK-A-908

Portret van Paulus Cornelisz van Beresteyn, burgemeester van Delft. Buste, naar rechts. Op de achterkant familiewapens, een inscriptie en het cijfer 24. Pendant van SK-A-909.

• coat of arms, on the reverse, bottom right: a silver lion rampant with red claws and tongue on a blue field
• coat of arms, on the reverse, top right: four red chevrons with a black label on a gold field
• coat of arms, on the reverse, centre: on a gold field a boar of a natural colour (brown) seated on a blue stone with its forelegs raised
• inscription, on the reverse: ‘Paulus van Berestein Burgerm.r te Delft Geb.r 1548 Gest 1625. / 24’
• coat of arms, on the reverse, bottom left: a plain white field
• coat of arms, on the reverse, top left: idem

painter: workshop of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt

in or after 1617

oil on panel

• support: height 63.2 cm x width 50.2 cm
• outer size: depth 6.5 cm (support incl. frame)

1600 - 1625

Jonkheer J. de Witte van Citters Bequest, The Hague

• bequest 1876
• interne vervaardiging 1876

Public domain

**For both the present painting (SK-A-908) and its pendant (SK-A-909)**

? Commissioned by or for the sitters; by descent from their daughter, Caecilia van Beresteyn (1589-1661), through the families Briell, De Jonge van Ellemeet, Van Citters to Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters (1817-76), The Hague; or ? from the sitters daughter, Caecilia van Beresteyn (1589-1661) through the families De Witte, Ockerse, Van Gelre, De Witte van Elkerzee to Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters (1817-76), The Hague; first recorded in the collection of the De Witte van Citters family, in the library of Kasteel Popkensburg, in the early 19th century;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, no. 843, ‘Getekende plattegrond van ruimte waarin familieportretten hangen’, nos. 24, 25.} bequeathed to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. nos. 3237, 3238), by Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters, 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885

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