List of paintings by Bartholomeus van der Helst
The following is an incomplete list of paintings by Bartholomeus van der Helst that are generally accepted as autograph by Judith van Gent and other sources. The list is in order of creation, starting from his first dated work in 1637 for the regents of the Walloon Orphanage in Amsterdam. Most of his works are portraits, but he also made some allegories.
image | title | date | museum | accession number | measurements |
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Regents of the Walloon Orphanage | 1637 | Regence Hospice Wallon, Amsterdam | oil on canvas, 133 x 147 cm | ||
Portrait of an unknown man, probably a preacher | 1638 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 1293 (OK) | oil on canvas, 113 x 81 cm | |
Officers and other members of the militia of district VIII in Amsterdam led by Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz. Blaeuw | 1639 | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Museum | SK-C-375 SA 7327 | oil on canvas, 235 x 750 cm | |
Portrait of a Young Lady | 1643 | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery | GV 1974.63 | oil on canvas, 162.5 x 129.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1642 | Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel | GK 269 | oil on canvas, 121.5 x 101 cm | |
Portrait of Andries Bicker | 1642 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-146 | oil on panel, 93.5 x 70.5 cm | |
Portrait of Catharina Jansdr. Tengnagel, wife of Andries Bicker | 1642 | Old Masters Gallery, Dresden | 1595 | oil on panel, 92.5 x 70 cm | |
Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker, son of Andries Bicker and lord of Muiden | 1642 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-147 | oil on panel, 94 x 70.5 cm | |
Portrait of Roelof Bicker | 1642 | private collection | oil on panel, 71.5 x 60 cm | ||
Portrait of Dirck de Vlaming van Oudtshoorn | 1642 | private collection | oil on panel, 71 x 60 cm | ||
Portrait of the Burgermeester's Wife, Weyntgen van Bronckhorst | 1642 | private collection | oil on panel, 71 x 60 cm | ||
Portrait of David Rijckaert (1614–1680) | 1643 | private collection | oil on panel, 77 x 63 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady (Berlin) | 1643 | Gemäldegalerie | 825A | oil on panel, 75.5 x 62 cm | |
Boy with a Spoon | 1643 | private collection | oil on canvas, 100 x 131 cm | ||
Portrait of a man, possibly Joan Hulft (1610–1677), with a dog, seated at a table with a clock | 1644 | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | 1595 | oil on canvas, 165 x 133 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman with a Child | 1644 | private collection | oil on canvas, 160 x 130.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | 1644 | private collection | oil on panel, 113 x 70 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady in Black Satin with a Fan | 1644 | National Gallery | NG1937 | oil on panel, 104.6 x 76 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1644 | private collection | oil on canvas, 77 x 65 cm | ||
Portrait of Wilhelm Vincent van Wyttenhorst | 1644 | Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History | oil on panel, 46 x 35 cm | ||
A Boy as Cupid – 1644 | 1644 | private collection | oil on canvas, 93 x 106 cm | ||
Portrait of Joan Coymans | 1645 | Chequers | oil on canvas, 74 x 64 cm | ||
Portrait of Sophia Trip, wife of Joan Coymans | 1645 | private collection | oil on canvas, 74 x 64 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man (Lille) | 1645 | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille | P252 | oil on canvas, 78.4 x 65 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman holding a Feather | 1645 | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille | 255 | oil on canvas, 78.4 x 65.8 cm | |
Portrait of a seated young man holding gloves in his left hand | 1645 | private collection | inv.nr. 1515 | oil on canvas, 127 x 99 cm | |
Portrait of a Girl | 1645 | National Gallery | NG1248 | oil on canvas, 75.4 x 65.3 cm | |
A child's deathbed portrait | 1645 | Museum Gouda | NK2692 | oil on canvas, 63 x 86.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1645-6 | National Gallery in Prague | O-10870 | oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm | |
Portrait of a Man, probably Willem Allertsz. Van Couwenhoven | 1646 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 1294 (OK) | oil on canvas, 74.2 x 63.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman | 1646 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 1295 (OK) | oil on canvas, 74 x 63.4 cm | |
Portrait of Samuel van Lansbergen (d 1669). Remonstrant minister in Rotterdam | 1646 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-143 | oil on panel, 68 x 58 cm | |
Portrait of Maria Pietersdr de Leest (d 1652). Wife of Samuel van Lansbergen | 1646 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-144 | oil on panel, 68 x 58 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1645-7 | private collection | oil on panel, 76 x 66 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man, perhaps Dammas Jansz. Pesser | 1647 | private collection | oval panel, 63 x 47 cm | ||
Portrait of a woman, perhaps Dorothea Adriaensdr. Keijser, wife of Dammas Jansz. Pesser | 1647 | private collection | oval panel, 63 x 47 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | 1647 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 71.73 | oval panel, 66.7 x 54.9 cm | |
Portrait of Jacob Jacobsz. van Couwenhoven | 1647 | private collection | oval panel, 68.6 x 55.9 cm | ||
Portrait of Maritge Jansdr. Pesser | 1647 | National Gallery of Ireland | oval panel, 71.2 x 59.1 cm | ||
Portrait of Aechte Cornelisdr. Briel | 1647 | private collection | oil on panel, 68 x 56 cm | ||
Portrait of Cornelis Jansz. Hartigsvelt | 1647 | private collection | oil on panel, 70 x 58 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady with a Fan | 1647 | Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum | oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm | ||
Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster | 1648 | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Museum | SK-C-2 SA 7328 | oil on canvas, 232 x 547 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1648 | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest | oil on canvas, 108.5 x 88.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Girl | 1648 | private collection | oil on panel, 73.5 x 59 cm | ||
Portrait of an Old Lady | 1648 | private collection | oil on panel, 64.5 x 54.5 cm | ||
Portrait of an Old Lady | c. 1648 | private collection | oil on panel, 69.5 x 59 cm | ||
Portrait of a Woman | 1649 | Hermitage Museum | ГЭ-6833 | oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm | |
Portrait of a Man in Black | 1649 | Bavarian State Painting Collections | 7256 | oil on canvas, 111 x 88.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady | 1649 | Bavarian State Painting Collections | 7262 | oil on canvas, 111 x 88.5 cm | |
Lady in Black | c. 1649 | Kadriorg Art Museum | VM 907 | oil on canvas, 97 x 82 cm | |
Two regents and two regentesses of the Spinhuis | 1650 | Amsterdam Museum | SA 4367 | oil on canvas, 233 x 317 cm | |
Portrait of Willem Vincent Van Wyttenhorst | 1650 | private collection | oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm | ||
Portrait of Wilhelmina Van Bronckhorst | 1650 | private collection | oil on canvas, 82 x 69 cm | ||
Portrait of a gentleman with white hair | 1650 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | 71.10 | oil on canvas, 76.1 x 65.6 cm | |
Portrait of the Burgomeister's Wife | 1650 | Mellerstain House | BW | oil on canvas, 75 x 64 cm | |
Portrait of an Officer | 1650 | Amsterdam Museum Rijksmuseum | SA 7509 SK-C-142 | oil on canvas, 75 x 64.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Young Man in Military Costume | 1650 | J. Paul Getty Museum | 70.PA.12 | oil on canvas, 73.5 x 59 cm | |
Portrait of Petrus Scriverius | 1651 | Museum De Lakenhal | S 1445 | oil on canvas, 114.5 x 98.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1651 | Statens Museum for Kunst | KMSsp444 | oil on panel, 84.5 x 66.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady | 1651 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_6388 | oil on panel, 86 x 67 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1651 | Museum Narodowe, Poznan | oil on canvas, 102 x 87.5 cm | ||
Family Portrait | 1647 1652 | Hermitage Museum | ГЭ-862 | oil on canvas, 236 x 345 cm | |
Family Portrait | 1652 | Hermitage Museum | ГЭ-860 | oil on canvas, 187.5 x 226.5 cm | |
Portrait of Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, as Widow of William II | 1652 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-142 | oil on canvas, 199.5 x 170 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman with a Curtain | 1652 | Old Masters Gallery, Dresden | 1596 | oil on canvas, 73 x 65.5 cm | |
The Directors of the Crossbow Militia | 1653 | Amsterdam Museum Rijksmuseum | SA 7329 SK-C-3 | oil on canvas, 183 x 268 cm | |
Portrait of Michiel Heusch | 1653 | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Cat. 495 | oil on canvas, 129.5 x 111.8 cm | |
Portrait of a Gentleman | 1653 | Museo de Arte de Ponce | 60.0158 | oil on canvas, 111.2 x 93.1 cm | |
Family Portrait of Jochem van Aras with His Wife and Daughter | 1654 | The Wallace Collection | P110 | oil on canvas, 169.5 x 197.5 cm | |
Portrait of Abraham del Court and His Wife Maria de Kaersgieter | 1654 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 1296 (OK) | oil on canvas, 172 x 146.5 cm | |
Portrait of Paulus Potter | 1654 | Mauritshuis | 54 | oil on canvas, 101 x 93.6 cm | |
Portrait of a Gentleman (hand on hip) | 1654 | Detroit Institute of Arts | 25.216 | oil on canvas, 90.2 x 73 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady in White | 1654 | private collection | oil on canvas, 83.5 x 68.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Girl with a Bunch of Grapes | 1654 | private collection | oil on canvas, 76.5 x 62.8 cm | ||
Four directors of the arquebusier's guild, Amsterdam, 1655 | 1655 | Amsterdam Museum | SA 2101 | oil on canvas, 171 x 283 cm | |
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade | 1655 | private collection | oil on canvas, 111.5 x 97.5 cm | ||
Portrait of Maria van Arckel, three-quarter-length, seated, before a balustrade | 1655 | private collection | oil on canvas, 111.5 x 97.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man (pendant of INV 1334) | 1655 | Louvre | INV 1333 | oil on canvas, 101 x 79 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman (pendant of INV 1333) | 1655 | Louvre | INV 1334 | oil on canvas, 100 x 79 cm | |
Portrait of a Man (60.010) | 1655 | Rhode Island School of Design Museum | 60.010 | oil on canvas, 112 x 98 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman (60.009) | 1655 | Rhode Island School of Design Museum | 60.009 | oil on canvas, 112 x 98 cm | |
Jacobus Trip (1627–70). Armaments dealer of Amsterdam and Dordrecht | 1655 | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Museum | SK-A-1255 SB 5783 | oil on canvas, 110 x 95 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady | 1655 | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Weimar | oil on canvas, 110 x 96 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man with Documents | 1655 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | 184 (1929.10) | oil on canvas, 100 x 86.3 cm | |
Hand Fragments | c. 1656 | Smith College Museum of Art | oil on canvas mounted on panel, left hand: 21.6 x 30.3 cm; right hand 21 x 25.1 cm | ||
The Directors of the Amsterdam Civic guard of St. George in 1656 | 1656 | Amsterdam Museum | SA 7330 | oil on canvas, 183 x 254 cm | |
Family portrait of Rijcklof van Goens and Jacomine Bartolomeusdr. Rosegaard, their children Rijcklof and Volckert, and a servant | 1656 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | lost – see JPK 1 (PK) | oil on canvas, 169 x 232 cm | |
Portrait of a Woman (Städel) | 1656 | Städel | 704 | oil on panel, 73.5 x 59.8 cm | |
Portrait of Louis De Geer the Younger 1622–1695, ironworks owner | 1656 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Leufstasamlingen | NMLeu 21 | oil on canvas, 110 x 91 cm | |
Portrait of Jeanne Parmentier, 1634–1710, wife of Louis de Geer | 1656 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Leufstasamlingen | NMLeu 22 | oil on canvas, 110 x 91 cm | |
Portrait of Emanuel De Geer, 1624–1692, brother of Louis de Geer, Jr. | 1656 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Leufstasamlingen | NMLeu 23 | oil on canvas, 110 x 75 cm | |
Portrait of Captain Gideon de Wildt | 1657 | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest | 4316 | oil on canvas, 135.8 x 119 cm | |
Portrait of a Maria Smit | 1657 | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon | oil on canvas, 135.5 x 118.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady | 1657 | Art Gallery Johannesburg | oil on canvas, 132.5 x 111 cm | ||
Self-Portrait | 1655 | Toledo Museum of Art | 1976.12 | oil on canvas, 96.5 x 99 cm | |
Portrait of a Boy holding a Silver Drinking Cup | 1657 | private collection | oil on canvas, 65.4 x 53.3 cm | ||
Portrait of an Officer | 1657 | Chequers | oil on canvas, 89 x 66 cm | ||
A Study of a Head | 1657 | Hermitage | oil on canvas, 66 x 57 cm | ||
Portrait of a Young Lady | 1655–59 | private collection | oil on canvas, 72.9 x 65.4 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | c. 1657 | private collection | oil on canvas, 115 x 95 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady | c. 1657 | private collection | oil on canvas, 115 x 95 cm | ||
Portrait of Cornelis Jansz. Witsen | 1658 | private collection | oil on canvas, 132 x 106.5 cm | ||
Portrait of Catharina Claesdr. Gaeff alias Lambertsdr. Opsy (1619–1698) | 1658 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | 2942 | oil on canvas, 134.5 x 109.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Girl with a Bread-bun and a Dog | 1658 | private collection | oil on canvas, 117.8 x 95.9 cm | ||
A Nude Young Woman behind a Draped Curtain | 1658 | Louvre | RF 1984-8 | oil on canvas, 123.5 x 96 cm | |
Portrait of a boy playing golf by the shore | 1659 | private collection | oil on canvas, 112 x 84 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man of the Hinlopen family, possibly Jacob Fransz Hinlopen | 1659 | Twickel Castle | oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Young Man | 1659 | private collection | oil on canvas, 73.6 x 59.7 cm | ||
Portrait of a Woman | 1659 | Mauritshuis | 569 | oil on panel, 77 x 62.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1660 | Mauritshuis | 568 | oil on panel, 77.2 x 62.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1660 | Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow | oil on panel, 79.7 x 61 cm | ||
The Holy Family with John the Baptist | 1660 | Centraal Museum | 2500 | oil on canvas, 167.2 x 209.6 cm | |
Portrait of Anna du Pire as Granida | 1660 | National Gallery in Prague | oil on canvas, 70 x 58.5 cm | ||
Self Portrait as Daifilo | 1660 | National Gallery in Prague | O-9324 | oil on canvas, 72 x 61 cm | |
Portrait of Joan Huydecoper | 1660 | private collection | oil on canvas, circa 120 x 101 cm | ||
Portrait of Sophia Coymans | 1660–69 | Royal Palace of Amsterdam | oil on canvas, 104 x 84 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | 1659 | Statens Museum for Kunst | KMSsp443 | oil on canvas, 97 x 78 cm | |
Portrait of Egbert Meeuwsz Cortenaer (1600–65). Vice admiral, admiralty of the Maas, Rotterdam | 1660 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-145 | oil on panel, 68 x 59 cm | |
Portrait of a Young Lady | 1663 | Mauritshuis | B483 | oil on canvas, 78 x 67 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady | c. 1660 | private collection | oil on canvas, 68 x 58 cm | ||
Portrait of an unknown couple | 1661 | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe | 235 | oil on canvas, 186 x 147.5 cm | |
Portrait of Samuel de Marez | 1661 | private collection | oil on canvas | ||
Portrait of Margaretha Trip, wife of Samuel de Marez | 1661 | private collection | oil on canvas, 132 x 112 cm | ||
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elisabeth, sister of Samuel de Marez | 1662 | private collection | oil on canvas, 108 x 90 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man as a Hunter | 1660–62 | private collection | oil on canvas, 133.2 x 106.6 cm | ||
The Musician | 1662 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | 73.2 | oil on canvas, 138.4 x 111.1 cm | |
Portrait of Man | 1662 | Kunsthalle Hamburg | 297 | oil on canvas, 132.5 x 112 cm | |
Portrait of a Man (Fitzwilliam) | 1662 | Fitzwilliam Museum | 149 | oil on canvas, 83.2 x 71.1 cm | |
Portrait of a Man | 1662 | Hermitage Museum | ГЭ-6318 | oil on canvas, 122 x 98 cm | |
Portrait of Willem van der Zaan | 1662 | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | 725 | oil on canvas, 113 x 91.4 cm | |
Portrait of a gentleman holding a feathered had in his right hand | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 71.1 x 59.1 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | 1664 | private collection | oil on canvas, 72.5 x 62 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man | 1664 | private collection | oil on canvas, 78 x 67 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man, 1664 | 1664 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | 205 | oil on canvas, 98 x 84.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Lady, 1664 | 1664 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | 206 | oil on canvas, 98 x 82 cm | |
Portrait of a woman as Venus with Paris' apple | 1664 | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille | 253 | oil on canvas, 106 x 86 cm | |
Venus punishing Cupid | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 116.5 x 88.5 cm | ||
Portrait of a Man with his Dogs | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 116.8 x 98 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady with a Falcon | 1665 | Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden | oil on canvas, 119 x 98 cm | ||
Portrait of a Woman with a Book | 1665 | musée Magnin | 1938E267bis | oil on canvas, 93.5 x 75.5 cm | |
Portrait of a Young Man in a Breastplate | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm | ||
Portrait of a Flute Player | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm | ||
Woman in the Window | 1665 | Museum der bildenden Künste | 1619 | oil on canvas, 99 x 85 cm | |
Homo Bulla: A Boy Blowing Bubbles in a Landscape | 1665 | New Orleans Museum of Art | 95.189 | oil on canvas, 81.3 x 73 cm | |
Portrait of a young boy with a falcon | 1665 | private collection | oil on canvas, 77.5 x 69.8 cm | ||
Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen (1626–1666) and Lucia Wijbrants (1638–1719) with to the left a vista showing a wet nurse and child | 1666 | private collection | oil on canvas, 134 x 161 cm | ||
Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam | 1666 | Hermitage Museum | ГЭ-867 | oil on canvas, 201 x 220 cm | |
Self-portrait (Uffizi version) | 1667 | Uffizi | 1638 | oil on canvas, 85 x 76 cm | |
Self-portrait (Warsaw version) | 1667 | National Museum in Warsaw | M.Ob.492 (128998) | oil on canvas | |
Portrait of Johan de Liefde (c 1619–73), Vice admiral | 1668 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-832 | oil on canvas, 139 x 122 cm | |
Portrait of Aert van Nes (1626–93), Vice admiral | 1668 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-140 | oil on canvas, 139 x 125 cm | |
Portrait of Geertruida den Dubbelde (1647–84), wife of Aert van Nes | 1668 | Rijksmuseum | SK-A-141 | oil on canvas, 139 x 125 cm | |
Portrait of a Man, possibly Louis Trip | 1668 | private collection | oil on canvas, 127.4 x 102.7 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady, possibly Ermgaard Emerantia Hoefslager | 1668 | private collection | oil on canvas, 127 x 102.6 cm | ||
Portrait of the Reepmaker Family | 1669 | Louvre | RF 2129 | oil on canvas, 193 x 145 cm | |
Portrait of Daniel Bernard | 1669 | Amsterdam Museum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 402 1297 (OK) | oil on canvas, 124 x 113 cm | |
Portrait of a Man tying his Knee Stocking | 1670 | Pushkin Museum | oil on canvas, 166 x 138 cm | ||
Portrait of a Lady with a Sunflower | 1670 | private collection | oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm |
Sources
[edit]- Bartolomeus van der Helst, proefschrift Leiden University 1921, by J.J. de Gelder, 1921
- Bartholomeus van der Helst (ca. 1613–1670). Een studie naar zijn leven en werk, by Judith van Gent, Waanders, Zwolle, 2011
- Bartolomeus van der Helst in the RKD