Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury

1629 · National Portrait Gallery, London

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Sir Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635) (also Horatio Vere or Horatio de Vere) was an English military leader during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. This portrait, with its remarkable inset battle scene, was painted during Vere's time in the Low Countries. It incorporates his motto 'VERO NIHIL VERIUS': 'nothing is more true than the truth'.

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About the Artist

Michiel Jansz. van Miereveld

1567 – 1641

Miereveld or Mierevelt, Dutch portrait painter, active mainly in his native Delft. In 1625 in The Hague he became Painter of the Princes of Orange. His portraits are mostly small in size, often busts only. They are dull and repetitive, but meticulously crafted and of great value as historical records. He was highly successful and enormously prolific. It is reported that Miereveld himself estimated that he made about 10.000 portraits.

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