Portrait of Baron Willem Joseph van Ghent

Rombout Verhulst, in or after c. 1673 - in or before c. 1676

Lieutenant-Admiral Willem van Ghent was fatally wounded by English fire during the Battle of Solebay on 7 June 1672. He was 46 years old. The outcome of the battle against a joint English and French fleet was indecisive. Van Ghent was buried in the Domkerk in Utrecht. This death mask is a study for his tomb, which Rombout Verhulst completed in 1676.

Artwork typesculpture
Object numberBK-NM-13151
Dimensionsheight 42 cm
Physical characteristicsterracotta

Identification

Title(s)
Portrait of Baron Willem Joseph van Ghent
Object type
Object number
BK-NM-13151
Description
Het hoofd met gesloten ogen is naar links gewend. Het vertoont een dunne snor en lang golvend haar. Boven het harnas steekt een geplooid kraagje uit. Het kuras verloopt onder de hals in een punt.
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Creation

Creation
sculptor: Rombout Verhulst, The Hague
Dating
in or after c. 1673 - in or before c. 1676
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Material and technique

Physical description
terracotta
Dimensions
height 42 cm

This work is about

Person
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Acquisition and rights

Credit line
On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
Copyright
Public domain
Provenance
Commissioned by the States General of the Netherlands, c. 1673/74;{F. Scholten, _Sumptuous Memories: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Tomb Sculpture_, Zwolle 2003, pp. 216-17.}…; Nationale Konst-Gallery, The Hague; transferred to the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, het Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1801; on loan to the museum, since 1923

Documentation

- G.A. Evers, 'Lt-admiraal van Ghent's praalgraf in den Utrechtsen Dom', Historia 10 (1944), p. 193-198, afb. 4.
- Documentatiemap.

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