Pieter Nason Lot n° 1042

Pieter Nason Portrait of Pieter Pauw Oil on wood. 70.1 x 56.3 cm. Provenance Belgian private collection. Pieter Pauw was born in 1611 into an important Amsterdam patrician family. He became captain of a regiment in the service of the state and was made a Knight of the Order of St. Michael in 1635. He was also a nobleman of the King of France. He died after a short but successful life in 1637. There is a very similar portrait of his brother, Michiel Pauw, Lord of Hoogersmilde. This portrait is signed Pieter Nason and dated 1647. It is now in the collection of the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (see RKD picture archive, no. 130459). Both portraits are single portraits in a painted oval, each showing a different city in the background and with slight differences in the sitter's posture and clothing.