Portrait of Baron Willem van Liere

• Portrait of Baron Willem van Liere
• Bust of Willem Baron van Liere (1620-1654), Lord of Oosterwijk and both Katwijks

BK-NM-11957-A

Rombout Verhulst completed the marble tomb for Baron van Liere and his widow, Maria van Reygersbergh, in 1663. In preparation for it, he made these portrait studies. Willem van Liere was modelled post mortem (after his death) in a stiff pose, probably derived from a painted portrait. The bust of Maria van Reygersbergh, in contrast, has all of the sensitivity and vitality of a portrait made ‘from life’.

M. van Notten, 'Twee portret-bustes door Rombout Verhulst', Het Huis Oud en Nieuw 5 (1907), 211-216, afb.

sculptor: Rombout Verhulst, Leiden

c. 1662

terracotta

height 51 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1906

Public domain

Commissioned by Maria van Reygersbergh (1632-1674), Lady of both Katwijks, c. 1662; ? her son Willem van Liere (1653-1706) and his wife Geertruid Anna, Baroness of Wassenaar and Duivenvoorde (1659-1694), 1674; ? their daughter Maria Jacoba van Liere (1682-1718) and her husband Jan Gerrit, Baron of Wassenaar (1672-1723), 1706; …; country house the Hof van Katwijk, Katwijk-Binnen, date unknown;{M. van Notten, `Twee portret-bustes door Rombout Verhulst´, _Het Huis Oud en Nieuw_ 5 (1907), pp. 211-16, esp. p. 211, mentions the busts until shortly before his writing were at the Sint-Willibrorduscollege (`Heerenschool´). This school was located in country house the Hof van Katwijk which was built around 1700 by the Van Liere family.} from the dealer Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, with pendant BK-NM-11957-B, fl. 2,500 for both, to the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1906

• M. van Notten, 'Twee portret-bustes door Rombout Verhulst', Het Huis Oud en Nieuw 5 (1907), 211-216, afb.
• J.G. Wertheim, Openbaar Kunstbezit (1960), nr. 14.
• F. Scholten, ‘“Mea Sorte Contentus” : Rombout Verhulst’s Portrait of Jacob van Reygersbergh’, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 19 (1991), p. 70, fig. 5.
• F.J. van Lanschot, 'Herinneringen uit mijn jeugd aan Jhr. Mr. Victor de Stuers', Oudheidkundig Jaarboek 12 (1943), p. 24, afb.
• Documentatiemap.
• M. van Notten, Rombout Verhulst, beeldhouwer 1624-1697 : een overzicht zijner werken, Den Haag 1907, p. 32-33.

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