Portrait of Adriaan Valckenier, Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company
Painter: Theodorus Justinus Rheen
Year:
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Medium: copper (metal)
Description: Portrait of Adriaan Valckenier (1695-1751). Governor General (1737-41). Standing, half-length, to left, facing face. Command staff in right hand, with left arm resting on a book with a paper bearing the monogram of the VOC. Top right the family crest, bottom left the arms of the Dutch East Indies, the Republic and Batavia. In the background a ship at sea. Part of a series of copies after portraits of the governors general of the former Dutch East Indies, probably from the United East India Company. Copy after SK-A-3778.
