List of paintings by Bartholomeus van der Helst

Summary

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
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