Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Michiel Sweerts

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of a Girl
ca. 1646-49
oil on canvas
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester


Michiel Sweerts
Boy with a Hat
ca. 1655-56
oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Michiel Sweerts
Allegory of the Sense of Hearing
ca. 1655-60
oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1655-56
oil on canvas
Leiden Collection, New York

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait Head of Woman
1654
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Michiel Sweerts
Man with a Pipe
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of Turbaned Youth with Nosegay
ca. 1661
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Michiel Sweerts
Burying the Dead
(series, Seven Works of Mercy)
ca. 1646-49
oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Michiel Sweerts
Clothing the Naked
(series, Seven Works of Mercy)
ca. 1646-49
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Michiel Sweerts
Wrestling Match
(set in Rome)
1649
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Michiel Sweerts
Hommes se baignant
1655
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Michiel Sweerts
Plague in an Ancient City
ca. 1652-64
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Michiel Sweerts
Old Woman Spinning
ca. 1646-48
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of Joseph Deutz
ca. 1648-49
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Wallace Collection, London

Michiel Sweerts
Clothing the Naked
(series, Seven Works of Mercy)
ca. 1661
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michiel Sweerts
Double Portrait
ca. 1660-62
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Michiel Sweerts
In the Studio
(set in Rome)
1652
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Easter Day

Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity,
    From thy Virgin Tombe:
Rise mighty man of wonders, and thy world with thee,
    Thy Tombe, the universall East,
    Natures new wombe,
Thy Tombe, faire Immortalities perfumed Nest.

Of all the Gloryes Make Noone gay
    This is the Morne.
This rocke buds forth the fountaine of the streames of Day.
    In joyes white Annals live this houre,
    When life was borne,
No cloud scoule on his radiant lids no tempest lowre.

Life, by this light's Nativity
    All creatures have.
Death onely by this Dayes just Doome is forc't to Dye;
    Nor is Death forc't; for may hee ly
    Thron'd in thy Grave;
Death will on this condition be content to Dy.

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)