Michiel Jansz. Van Mierevelt

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (Delft 1566-1641) Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black costume with a white lace collar inscribed with the sitter's age, dated and signed 'Ætatis 54. Ao. 1636 M.Miereveld' (AE linked, centre left) oil on panel 73.8 x 59.2 cm. Charles Sedelmeyer; Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 25 May 1907, lot 122 (Frs. 2,000). OTHER PROPERTIES

LOT 282 MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT DELFT 1567 - 1641 DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE, HE HOLDING A TULIP ANDBULB, A SELECTION OF SHELLS ON THE SHELF BELOW signed lower left (partly strengthened): M.J. Miere...lt andinscribed and dated upper left: AE...tis 3(9?)/1609 (AE incompendium) oil on panel 25,000—35,000 USD measurements measurements note 32 1/2 by 25 5/8 in.; 82.5 by 65 cm. Description signed lower left (partly strengthened): M.J. Miere...lt andinscribed and dated upper left: AE...tis 3(9?)/1609 (AE incompendium) oil on panel Tulips were highly prized in 17th century Holland and weresymbols of prosperity. While the tulip and tulip bulb depicted inthis double portrait certainly allude to the sitters' wealth, theymay also allude to the brevity of life. The tulip flower emergesfrom the bulb, is briefly in bloom and dies. The empty shells onthe table are an additional symbol of departed life. Given thesesymbols, it is possible that this is a commemorative portraitcommissioned by one of the sitters, probably the husband, after thedeath of the other.

LOT 258 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, MASSACHUSETTS MICHIEL JANSZ. VAN MIEREVELT DELFT 1567 - 1641 JACOB VAN DALEN, CALLED VALLENSIS (1570-1644); MARGARETHA VANCLOOTWIJK (CIRCA 1580/81-1662) 60,000—80,000 USD measurements measurements note each: 43 1/4 by 33 1/2 in.; 109.8 by 85.1 cm. Description The man, signed, inscribed and dated middle left: AEtatis.70. /A.o 1640. / M. Miereveld and charged with the arms ofthe Van Dalen family upper left;The woman, charged with the arms of the Van Dalen and Van Clootwijkfamilies upper right a pair, both oil on panel Quantity: 2 PROVENANCE Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner before the1950s. EXHIBITED Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan each summer, 1955-1990. CATALOGUE NOTE These late portraits by van Mierevelt are three-quarter lengthversions of a pair of half-length depictions of the same sitters inthe collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork.1 The Metropolitan's portraits are signed and dated1640 (Portrait of Jacob van Dalen) and 1639 (Portrait of Margarethavan Clootwijk) and bear the same family crests. A 1641 inventory ofvan Mierevelt's estate refers to "four large and two smallportraits" of Jacob van Dalen and his wife that he was to receiveand that still remained in the artist's house.2 Thehalf-length pair in the Metropolitan's collection must be thosereferred to in the inventory as the "small portraits", while thepresent pair must be two of the four "large portraits." Thelocation of the other pair of larger portraits is presentlyunknown.3 Though both versions of the Portrait of Jacob van Dalen aredated 1640, the Metropolitan's version is inscribed with his age as69 rather than 70, as is inscribed on the present version. VanDalen was born on November 21, 1570, thus allowing us to pinpointthe completion of the present version of his portrait to sometimein the last six weeks of the year 1640 and, presumably, after theversion in the Metropolitan. Jacob van Dalen was born in Speyer Germany and studied medicineat the University of Leiden from 1589-1593. He was the personalphysician of the Dutch Stadholders Prince Maurits (1567-1625) andPrince Frederick Hendrick (1584-1647). He settled in Delft, wherehe died on February 14, 1644. Margaretha van Clootwijk was hissecond wife. Both are buried in the Oude Kerk, Delft. Van Dalen isalso depicted in a group portrait by van Mierevelt and his sonPieter, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Willem van der Meer, paintedtwenty three years earlier.4 1. Portrait of Jacob van Dalen, signed, dated and inscribedmiddle left: AEtatis. 69/A.o 1640/M. Miereveld, oil on panel, 27 ½by 23 in.; 69.9 by 58.4 cm (inv. no. 25.110.13); Portrait ofMargaretha van Clootwijk, signed, dated and inscribed middle right:AEtatis. 56/A.o 1639/M. Miereveld, oil on panel, 27 3/4 by 22 7/8in.; 70.5 by 58.1 cm. (inv. no. 25.110.12).2. In the inventory, van Dalen is referred to as "Dr. Vallensis,"the Latinized form his name and how he was professionallyknown.3. See W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum ofArt, New York 2007, Vol. I, p. 476, under cat. no. 121; and A.Bredius, "Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, een nalezing," in OudHolland 26, 1908, p. 8.4. In the Gemeente Musea Delft; Collection Stedelijk Museum HetPrinsenhof.

signed lower left (partly strengthened): M.J. Miere...lt and inscribed and dated upper left: AE...tis 3[9?]/ 1609 ( AE in compendium) oil on panel CATALOGUE NOTETulips, and in particular tulip bulbs, were a sign of great prosperity in seventeenth-century Holland and by the 1630s bulbs were changing hands for as much as 4,500 guilders, a price equivalent to a large house. Yet, while the tulip included in this double portrait does indeed allude to the sitters' wealth, it is also a symbol of short-livedness and decay; life is born out of the bulb, flowers into the tulip, but must eventually die; the empty shells on the table beneath are a reminder that life has already departed them. In light of all this symbolism it is conceivable that this is a commemorative portrait commissioned by one of the sitters, probably the gentleman, after the death of the other.

signed and dated 'M. Miereveldt 1638' (centre left) and inscribed with the sitter's coat-of-arms oil on panel 67.3 x 61.5 cm. (26½ x 24¼ in.) Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000, ?11,000 - 17,000 Footnote: PROVENANCE: Collection of Colonel E.A. Bulwer, Quebec House, Norfolk LITERATURE: Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Volume II, No. 49 EXHIBITED: Brian L. Koetser Gallery, Spring 1968, Catalogue No. 5 The arms depicted are those of the Pauw family, one of the most influential and powerful of the oligarchies which controlled the political activities of the cities of Amsterdam and Delft in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and, through their position in the Estates General, of the Dutch Republic. From the age of the sitter in 1638, he can be identified as Jacob Pauw, the only son of Adriaen Pauw, brewer of Delft, and his first wife, Elizabeth van der Chijs, who enrolled at Leiden University in 1636, giving his age as 30. It is highly likely that the portrait was commissioned on the occasion of Pauw's appointment as a member of Delft City Council on the 17th December, 1638. He was also a Governor of the Old and New Hospital in 1639 and an Alderman in 1642. He died in Delft on the 12th September, 1645, having married there on the 4th April, 1637 Agatha van Hezenbroek van Goeree. They had three children. Mrs Pauw's portrait was auctioned in Amsterdam (16th February, 1858, artist unknown) and that of her sister, Corvina (dated 1618, 'aet. 16' by Mierevelt) was auctioned in the same sale and then again, 21st February, 1888 and is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (cat.no. 1695). A further portrait of a brother, dated 1616, by Cuyp, was auctioned at Christie's, London, 26th March, 1923, lot 28.