DELFF, Willem Jacobsz
(b. 1580, Delft, d. 1638, Delft)

Portrait of Maria Strick

1620
Graphite on vellum, 228 x 168 mm
Institut Néerlandais, Paris

This is one of the two surviving drawings which can be attributed to Delff, the other being a portrait of the stadholder Frederick Hendrick.

Maria Strick (1577-after 1630) was a famous calligrapher in Rotterdam.




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