Artist: Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst)
Date: 1651
Size: 74 x 60 cm
Technique: Oil On Panel
This portrait of Amalia van Solms in a painted oval frame is based on the sitter’s likeness in Honthorst’s large portrait of Frederik Hendrik and family (SK-A-874), which was probably executed in 1647. The costume is exactly the same in both paintings. The coiled braid, however, has been simplified, and appears accordingly rather odd. Undoubtedly the product of Honthorst’s large studio, the execution of the sitter’s face is nonetheless not without merit. The handling of the drapery, in contrast, is lacklustre. Dendrochronology of the panel suggests that the painting was executed in or after c. 1651. This portrait possibly belonged to a series including the Portrait of Louise Christina (SK-A-574) and Portrait of an Officer (SK-A-176) by Honthorst and his studio in the Rijksmuseum.8 Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 147.
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