Artist: Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn
Date: 1633
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Technique: Oil On Panel
The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General Van den Tempel came from a prominent Brabant family that supported the Nassau cause from an early date. In 1573, William the Silent commissioned him to fight against the Spanish. As colonel of a Zeeland regiment he occupied Ghent in 1576 and, later in the same year, Brussels, where he served as governor from 1579 until the return of the city to the Duke of Parma in 1585. In 1597, Prince Maurits appointed him superintendent in his war council, and in 1599 he was temporarily in German service on the eastern border of the Netherlands. The following year, he quelled an uprising in Groningen, after which he was called back to the battlefields in Flanders by Maurits. In the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), he led the first division of the French forces in the States’ service. He was killed during a skirmish at ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1603.43 The prototype, which judging by the sitter’s lacetrimmed ruff probably dated from around 1600, has not been located. Van Kretschmar has shown that the 1635 inscription on a larger bust-length portrait of Olivier van den Tempel at Kasteel Amerongen is probably correct.44 What has been taken to be a Van Ravesteyn signature on the present painting in past Rijksmuseum collection catalogues is clearly an inscription by a hand other than the artist’s. Like the Kasteel Amerongen painting, the present one is most likely a product of Van Ravesteyn’s studio.45 Despite some dissimilarities, both portraits probably follow the same lost prototype.46 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. 373.
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