These 1618 companion pieces showing Philippe le Mire (shown here) and his wife Antoinette Walleran (SK-A-907) are in oval frames with trompe l’oeil painted decoration. The inscription on Le Mire’s portrait states that he is 22 years old, meaning that he was born in 1596. He was the son of Louis le Mire.3 The inscription on Antoinette Walleran’s portrait, which is also dated 1618, records that she was 20 years old at the time, so she was born in 1598. The couple married in Middelburg on 18 February 1618, so it can be assumed that the portraits were made on the occasion of their wedding. Hofstede de Groot rightly attributed these companion pieces to Jacob Lambrechtsz on the evidence of a comparison with three portraits, two of which are signed with that name.4 After the discovery of the signature ‘jacob l. loncke’ on the third portrait, all the works could be assigned to the artist with that surname.5 The simple compositions of these two swiftly executed portraits are almost identical to those of the other three works, which are also similar in size. A fourth portrait, of Jan Cornelisz Stavenisse, closely matches them, and can probably be added to Loncke’s oeuvre.6 Yvette Bruijnen, 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. 169.