Single portrait of Cornelis van Wevelinchoven

General information
Original location Gorinchem (where the sitter lived)
Current location Unknown
Provenance Previously collection Verheyen
Artist Anonymous
Date After 1659 (return from pilgrimage)
Material Oil on canvas
Dimensions 70 x 60 cm
Visual elements
Short description Portrait of a man with a thin mustache and long hair, bust, looking to the viewer's right. The man wears a turban and raises his right arm, showing a tattoo with a Jerusalem cross.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Cornelis van Wevelinchoven
Social status / profession Knight of the Holy Sepulchre (see also remarks)
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage 1657-1659 (known from travel report)
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Tattoo with Jerusalem cross
Other known pilgrimages Rome
Travel report Cornelis van Wevelinchoven, Journaal v.e. reis naar Jerusalem in 1665 (MS Washington D.C., Library of Congress, LC 2010714092)
Death
Year of death Between 1679 and 1683, in Rome
Additional information related to this person
Personal remarks Cornelis came from a Catholic brewer's family in Gorinchem. He was a son of the brewer Jan van Wevelinchoven Anthonisz., who was also city counselor (schepen) of Gorinchem, captain of the city guard, and officer of the water board. Other family members included priests and archbishops. Nicolaas Piek, a Franciscan priest and leader of the Martyrs of Gorkum, was a distinct relative. The latter's fellow Franciscan and Martyr Jerome of Weert also had a Jerusalem tattoo, which was cut away by his assassins before he was executed, as the story goes (see Van Herwaarden).
Additional information
Literature
  • Herwaarden, Jan van, Between Saint James and Erasmus. Studies in Late Medieval Religious Life: Devotion and Pilgrimage in the Netherlands (Leiden and Boston 2003), pp.253-255
  • Mordechay Lewy, 'Jerusalem unter der Haut. Zur Geschichte der Jerusalemer Pilgertätowierung', Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 55 (2003), pp. 1-39
  • Schutte, O., 'Van Wevelinchoven en De Liefde', De Nederlandsche Leeuw 99 (1982), cols. 112-147, cols. 125-126
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