Portrait of Johannes Polyander à Kerckhoven, Professor of Theology in Leiden, Arnoud van Halen, 1700 - 1732

Title(s)

Portrait of Johannes Polyander à Kerckhoven, Professor of Theology in Leiden

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-4557

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Joannes Poliander. Nat. 1568 / Ob.t 1646’

Description

Portret van Johannes Polyander van Kerckhoven (1568-1646). Hoogleraar in de godgeleerdheid te Leiden. Buste in ovaal, naar rechts. Onderdeel van een verzameling portretten van Nederlandse dichters.

Artist

• painter: Arnoud van Halen
• print maker: Willem Jacobsz Delff (copy after)

Dating

1700 - 1732

Material

• tin plate
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 11 cm × width 9.5 cm

What

• portrait of a writer
• writer, poet, author

Who

• Johannes Polyander van Kerckhoven

Acquisition

purchase 1877

Copyright

Public domain

• The Panpoëticon Batavûm : the portrait of the author as a celebrity, Lieke van Deinsen, Mariska Vonk, p. 81, cat.nr. 125