Single portrait of Hendrik van Leeuwen

General information
Original location Utrecht
Current location Private collection
Artist Anonymous
Date After 1560
Material Oil on panel
Dimensions 96,5 x 72,5 cm
Visual elements
Short description Portrait of a man, standing, half-length, turned to the viewer's right. Under him a text panel.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Hendrik van Leeuwen
Social status / profession Canon of the Chapter of St Peter (Pieterskerk)
Coat of arms Upper right: semicircular shield - in gold a red chevron (in goud een rode keper)
Text Under portrait: Heer Henrick van Leeuwenn canonnick sinte Peters tUytrecht voorwaer // Krysden nar Jerusalem als men schreef duysent vyfhondert tsestich jaer // Daar hy hem deede slaen uwt rechten minnen // Hopende die ghenaden ons Heeren hier namaels te winnen.
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1560
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Palm; Necklace with golden Jerusalem cross
Death
Year of death 1574
Location of grave Utrecht, Chapter Church of St Peter (Pieterskerk)
Additional information
General remarks Text known from a note in Del Court van Krimpen.
Literature
  • La famille Del Court van Krimpen, réfugiés de Verviers: leur rôle dans l'industrie drapière en Hollande au 17e et au 18e siècle, et leur place dans la magistrature: avec une étude sur le tableau de Rembrandt dit "De Staalmeesters" (Arnhem 1916), p. 155, note 1
  • Tongerloo, Louise van, 'Grablegung und Totengedenken bei Pilgerbruderschaften in Utrecht, mit einer Neuinterpretation von Scorels und Mors Bildnisreihen von Jerusalemfahrern,' in: Truus van Bueren en Andrea van Leerdam (eds.), Care for the here and the hereafter: memoria, art and ritual in the Middle Ages (Turnhout 2005), pp. 221-247, p. 238
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