The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General Anthonis van Utenhove was a scion of an old aristocratic family from Ghent. In 1595 he was appointed captain of an infantry division in the army of the States-General. He distinguished himself during the defence of Ostend (1601-04), which led to his governorship of that town and promotion to colonel of the Utrecht regiment. In the same year (1604), he became Lord of Rijnesteyn. In 1606, he was made governor of Doesburg, and later of Emmerich (1614-25).43 Although it carries Paulus Moreelse’s monogram, the quality of this portrait is not good enough to assign it to him. Without explaining how Van Ravesteyn would have had access to the prototype, Domela Nieuwenhuis has suggested that it was probably executed in his workshop after a lost portrait by Moreelse.44 It seems more likely, however, that the present portrait was executed by an assistant in Moreelse’s studio. Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 377.