Pieter Nason

Pieter Nason worked in the seventeenth century for merchant and aristocratic patrons, including clients in Dutch circles and Berlin. Portrait of a Man of 1663, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, combines a lace collar and cuffs with velvet drapery and a marble column. A skull accompanies this presentation of wealth as a reminder of life’s brevity.

Its companion, Portrait of a Woman at the Walters Art Museum, includes an open pocket watch, extending the meditation on time proposed by the male portrait. In another Portrait of a Man, at Salzburg’s Residenzgalerie, Nason introduces a landscape vista behind the sitter leaning on a console. This arrangement adopts the conventions of prestigious society portraiture, which were increasingly taken up by the bourgeoisie of the northern Netherlands.

Works recorded at auction

Lempertz · Lot 2540

Portrait of a Lady

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Bildnis einer Dame
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Auction date : 2022-05-21

Published result : 7500 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 6000

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Lempertz · Lot 2057

Portrait Adriaen van Slijp(e) Portrait Elisabeth van Slijp(e)

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Portrait Adriaen van Slijp(e) Portrait Elisabeth van Slijp(e)
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Auction date : 2020-11-14

Published result : 15000 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 15000

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Lempertz · Lot 1579

Bildnis eines Feldherrn

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Bildnis eines Feldherrn
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2018-11-17

Published result : 23560 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 18000

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