Portrait of Adriana Croes
Painter: Johannes Verspronck
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Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Adriana Croes had herself immortalized by Verspronck when she had been widowed for several years. She and her husband, the cloth merchant Hendrick Pietersz Strijp, had five daughters. Years later, one of them, Maria, and her husband, Eduard Wallis, were also portrayed by
Verspronck; their likenesses hang nearby. Adriana’s face is so realistically painted that it seems to reflect all her joys and sorrows.
