WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture

Artists›Michael Sweerts

Michael Sweerts

1618

WA-00079279

PaintingBaroque

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

No influence edges encoded yet.

Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ1342328

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

Nga
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/michael-sweerts
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

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).

Source: Nga · Trust score: 85% · Updated 10d ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Baroque

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

National Gallery of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (8)

Man Smoking a Pipe and a Small Boy

1655 · etching and engraving

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Draughts Players

1652 · oil paint (paint), canvas

height: 48 cm, width: 52.5 cm, thickness: 6 cm, width: 38 cm, height: 63 cm

Rijksmuseum

Portrait of Joseph Deutz

1648 · canvas, oil paint (paint)

width: 74.5 cm, height: 99.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

Visiting the Sick

1646 · oil paint (paint), canvas

height: 75 cm, width: 99 cm

Rijksmuseum

Clothing the Naked

1646 · oil paint (paint), canvas

width: 99 cm, height: 74 cm

Rijksmuseum

A Painter’s Studio

1646 · canvas, oil paint (paint)

height: 71 cm, width: 74 cm

Rijksmuseum

Refreshing the Thirsty

1646 · canvas, oil paint (paint)

height: 72 cm, width: 97.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

Feeding the Hungry

1646 · oil paint (paint), canvas

width: 99 cm, height: 75 cm

Rijksmuseum

Artwork sources (3)

8 published of 11 catalogued · 8 with image

Rijksmuseum
7 published7 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published1 img
+ 1 more source · 3 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 8)

8 entries · 1 sources

Man Smoking a Pipe and a Small Boy
1655 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Refreshing the Thirsty
1646 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Draughts Players
1652 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Feeding the Hungry
1646 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Visiting the Sick
1646 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Portrait of Joseph Deutz
1648 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Clothing the Naked
1646 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
A Painter’s Studio
1646 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Relationships

Movements1

Baroque

Collections1

National Gallery of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

National Gallery of Art

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

No exhibitions or timeline entries yet