Single portrait of Eilard Cromme

General information
Original location Kampen, Jerusalem Chapel in St. Nicholas's Church (Bovenkerk)
Current location Kampen, Stedelijk museum Kampen, inv. no. 3259
Provenance Kampen, Plague Hospital (Pesthuis, founded 1538 by Cromme); municipal hospital
Artist Anonymous
Date ca. 1545
Material Oil on panel
Dimensions Without frame: 52 x 45,5 cm
with frame (including tympanum): 92 x 60,5 cm
Visual elements
Short description Portrait of a man, displayed half-length, seated behind a table, facing left. The frame is topped with a tympanum containing a text.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Eilard Cromme
Social status / profession Member of the Kampen city council (from 1542); Founder of the plague hospital (Pesthuis, 1538)
Coat of arms Upper left: late renaissance shield - in silver a red cross potent over two green(?) palm branches in saltire
Upper right: late renaissance shield - in silver a black mark (Cromme's house mark)
Text On tympanum: Anno 1520, de 28 dach augusti in Herusalem. Anno 1545 op sinte Franciscus dach starff Elaert Crome pilgherum van Herusalem
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1520 (on 28 August in Jerusalem)
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Palm
Death
Date of death 4 October 1545
Additional information
Literature
  • Bueren, Truus van, Leven na de dood: gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen (Turnhout 1999), pp. 80, 230
  • Kolman, R.J., 'De pelgrims van Jeruzalem te Kampen ca 1450-1580', Kamper almanak (1987), pp. 155-214, 163-165, 202
MeMO ID 588
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