Pair of portraits of Willem van Beveren and Maria van Bakel

General information
Original location Dordrecht (where the sitters were from)
Current location Private collection
Artist Anonymous
Date After 1485 (year of marriage of the couple)
Visual elements
Short description Two portraits, both facing left. Willem van Beveren is shown reading a book, Maria van Bakel with folded hands.
Depicted pilgrim (left panel)
Personal information
Name Willem van Beveren
Social status / profession Lord of Dortsmonde; Secretary and member of the Dordrecht city council; Representative of Dordrecht in The Hague, Brussels, and Mechelen; Treasurer of the Dordrecht confraternity of Jerusalem pilgrims (1503)
Coat of arms Top left: semicircular shield - a rampant beaver (een klimmende bever)
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem Before 1503 (in which year he was already member of the Jerusalem confraternity)
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Palm
Death
Year of death 1506
Additional information
General remarks As can be suspected in other double portraits on which the husband is portrayed as Jerusalem pilgrim, Maria van Bakel may have made the pilgrimage herself as well.
Unusual for double portraits, both persons are turned in the same direction. This indicates that the portraits could have been part of a succession series, or copies from a larger painting of which the couple formed only a part.
Literature
  • Cerutti, Wim, Haarlemse Jeruzalemvaarders (Haarlem 2010), p. 118
  • Valkenburg, W.W. van, 'De voorouders van Pieter van Vollenhoven,' De Nederlandsche Leeuw 82 (1965), cols. 97-192, cols. 184-188
Descriptions of the RKD
Willem van Beveren
Maria van Bakel
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