Adriaen Hanneman

Dutch, c. 1603/1604 - 1671

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Shown from the hips up, a boy with pale, peachy skin and copper-brown hair stands in front of a rocky outcropping with a narrow view into a distant landscape to our left in this vertical portrait painting. His body faces our left almost in profile, and he turns his face to look at us with dark brown eyes under faint brows. He has a long, straight nose, a pointed chin, flushed cheeks, and his full, rose-pink lips are slightly parted. His dark hair falls in waves to the wide, flat, white collar at his neck. He wears a golden yellow doublet brocaded with shimmering threads, possibly silver and gold. The sleeves split along the inner arm to reveal a white shirt with voluminous, puffy sleeves that end with wide, transparent cuffs like floppy saucers around each wrist. Over the jacket, he wears a gleaming, pewter-colored breastplate with a topaz-blue sash crossing his chest. His peanut-brown pants are also sewn or woven with metallic thread in stripes down the side of the leg. The boy rests his right hand, farther from us, on a staff or walking stick propped in front of him. His other hand rests around the gold hilt of a rapier, a thin sword at his left hip, closer to us. Behind the boy, the view is almost entirely taken up with a slate-gray boulder, or it could be the entrance of a cave. A view onto the landscape along the left edge of the composition has a few treetops beneath pale yellow clouds against an ice-blue sky.
Adriaen Hanneman, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, c. 1653, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.51

Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Adriaen Hanneman · c. 1653 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.51

Hendrik Danckerts, Charles II, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1950.14.283

Charles II

Hendrik Danckerts · · engraving ·  Accession ID  1950.14.283

Bibliography

1896

  • Bredius, Abraham and Ernest W. Moes. "Adriaen Hanneman." Oud Holland 14 (1896): 203-218.

1931

  • Glück, Gustav. Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben 13. Revised 2nd ed. New York, 1931.

1950

  • Toynbee, Margaret R. "Adriaen Hanneman and the English Court in Exile." The Burlington Magazine 92 (1950): 73-80.

1958

  • Toynbee, Margaret R. "Adriaen Hanneman and the English Court in Exile: A Further Note." The Burlington Magazine 100 (1958): 249-250.

1971

  • Bie, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst. Edited by Gerard Lemmens. Reprint of Antwerp, 1661/1662. Soest, 1971: 412.

1976

  • Kuile, Onno ter. Adriaen Hanneman: 1604-1671, een Haags portretschilder = Adriaen Hanneman, 1604-1671, a portraitpainter in The Hague. Ph. D. dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 1976.

1980

  • Larsen, Erik. Anton van Dyck: Werkverzeichnis. 2 vols. Translated by Wolfgang Bensch. Die großen Meister der Malerei. Frankfurt, 1980.

  • Larsen, Erik. L’opera completa di Van Dyck. 2 vols. Classici dell'arte 102-103. Milan, 1980.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 91-92.