Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter is a 1667 oil on canvas painting of Michiel de Ruyter by Ferdinand Bol, with a marine landscape in the background thought to be by Willem van de Velde (II) including de Ruyter's flagship "De Zeven Provinciën".

Produced in memory of the Four Days Battle, there were originally six identical versions of the work, each hanging in one of the offices of the Dutch Republic's Admiralty. One of them is now lost and the one now in the Rijksmuseum was originally for the Admiralty of Zeeland in Middelburg, to which it was given by de Ruyter himself in 1667. Those now in the Mauritshuis and Westfries Museum were originally in the Navy Department and the Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier respectively. Others are now in the National Maritime Museum and the National Museum of Denmark.

The Rijksmuseum version was recorded in the office of the Department of Convoys and Licences (roughly equivalent to a tax office) in Vlissingen in 1795 before being donated to the Rijksmuseum's predecessor the Koninklijk Museum by the Departmental Council of Zeeland. It was later loaned to the Het Scheepvaartmuseum for a time.
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Michiel de Ruyter
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Ferdinand Bol
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Willem van de Velde (II)
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"De Zeven Provinciën"
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Four Days Battle
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Dutch Republic
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Admiralty of Zeeland
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Middelburg
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Mauritshuis
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Westfries Museum
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Navy Department
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Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier
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National Maritime Museum
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National Museum of Denmark
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Vlissingen
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Het Scheepvaartmuseum
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Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
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1667-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1667
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1667-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1667
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1795-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1795
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