Portrait of Hadriaan Beverland

Johannes Willemsz Munnickhuysen (c. 1654-after 1701), after Ary de Vois (c. 1632-1680), engraving, c. 1676-1680

For Beverland, portraits were a means of establishing his reputation. Each one highlights a different aspect of his personality. On the one hand, they present him as an ambitious philosopher and, on the other, as a provocative bad boy. In this standard portrait, framed in a laurel wreath, we see the 26-year-old Beverland as a respectable scholar. It would have been fitting as an author’s portrait in a book.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1885-A-9449
  • Dimensionsheight 257 mm x width 160 mm
  • Physical characteristicsgravure; proefdruk