Portrait of Joannes Neyen with a skull.

Engraving, 33 x 23,5 cm, laid paper with watermark (Heawood:610), signed in the plate "J. Muller sculpsit. M. à Mierevelt pinxit." (some foxing, mostly in margins).

Impressive portrait of the General of the Franciscan Friars, and ambassador in Trier. With 18th-c. biographical ms. note at lower margin: "Pater Jan Neyen van Antwerpen. Gezant wegens de Aartshertogen Albertus en Isabella in den Haag, welke de grootste moeite van allen deed om 't Bestand door te dryven. Hy komt in Den Haag in December 1606". Fine, dark impression of the 4th state (of 5).
Ref. New Hollstein (Muller Dynasty), 60.4.