Artist
Bartholomeus van der Helst

Dutch, 1613–1670
Bartholomeus van der Helst was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 48 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Bartholomeus van der Helst was born in Haarlem.
Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as the Stadtholder's circle. Besides portraits, van der Helst painted a few genre pictures as well as some biblical scenes and mythological subjects.
Works by Bartholomeus van der Helst
The Musician
Four directors of the arquebusier's guild, Amsterdam, 1655
Portrait of a Man
Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster
Militia Company of District VIII under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker
Self-portrait
Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam
Egbert Meeuwsz Cortenaer (1605-65). Vice admiral, admiralty of the Maas, Rotterdam
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Man in Black
Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker, son of Andries Bicker and lord of Muiden
Portrait of Andries Bicker
Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, as Widow of William II
Portrait of a Young Man with a Lemon
Portrait of Geertruida den Dubbelde (1647-84), wife of Aert van Nes
Portrait of Paulus Potter
Collections represented