Portrait of a Young Woman

The severe and stiff posture as well as the objective and sober observation of detail, especially such fashionable features as the ruff collar, illustrate the influence that 16thcentury tradition had on this portraiture specialist, who was kept busy working for the House of Orange. In his psychological approach to this unidentified subject, who has a male counterpart in a private Swiss collection, Mierevelt reveals himself as an effective forerunner of the great Dutch portraiture of the 17th century.