Michiel Sweerts

1618–1664 · Baroque

Michiel Sweerts or Michael Sweerts was a Flemish painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, who is known for his allegorical and genre paintings, portraits and tronies. The artist led an itinerant life and worked in Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam, Persia and India (Goa).

38 paintings

• A lady sewing in an interior (1652)
• Portrait of a boy (1660)
• Elegant couple with shepherds in the Roman Campania (1650)
• A Woman Spinning (1656)
• Young man wearing a turban holding an upturned roemer (The fingernail test) (1649)
• A beggar warming his hands on a pot of coal, with a boy in an interior (1650)
• Self portrait reading (1645)
• The Drawing School (1655)
• Man Holding a Jug (1660)
• Anthonij de Bordes and His Valet (1648)
• Boy Drawing before the Bust of a Roman Emperor (1661)
• Portrait of a man (1700)
• Old peasant (1650)
• Old pilgrim (1650)
• Self-portrait (1656)
• Portrait of a Gentleman, possibly a Member of the Deutz Family (1648)
• Old Man With a Boy (1651)
• Double Portrait (1662)
• Head of a Woman (1654)
• Portrait of a Man (1650)
• Portrait of a Young Man (1656)
• Nitpicking (1650)
• Peasant Family, with a Man Removing Fleas from Himself (1658)
• Portrait of a Young Woman (1661)
• Clothing the Naked (ca. 1661)
• Man Holding a Jug (ca. 1660)
• Four Youths around a Fire (1650)
• A Painter’s Studio (1650)
• The Card Players (1650)
• The Draughts Players (1652)
• Feeding the Hungry (1646)
• Refreshing the Thirsty (1646)
• Clothing the Naked (1646)
• Visiting the Sick (1646)
• Portrait of Joseph Deutz (1648)
• Market Scene in Rome, Piazza Navonna (1650)
• Soldiers Playing Dice (1655)
• Boy in a Turban holding a Nosegay (1659)