Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, with the Memorial Tablet of Adriaen Teding van Berkhout
by VLIET, Hendrick Cornelisz. Van, Oil on canvas, 100 x 112 cm
This canvas was commissioned by Paulus Teding van Berkhout, the eldest son of Adriaen Teding van Berkhout (1571-1620), whose memorial tablet appears on the right. The central tombstone in the foreground covers Adriaen Teding van Berkhout’s grave.
In the early 1660s Van Vliet returned to the venerable tradition of deep, one-point perspective views, of which there are numerous earlier examples by Bartholomeus van Bassen, Gerard Houckgeest, Pieter Saenredam, Anthonie de Lorme and others.
The painting is signed and dated on the base of the right column: H. VAN. VLIET.A° 1661.