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Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog
Adriaan de Lelie (1755-1820), oil on canvas, 1790
Hendrick de Hartog taught mathematics at the Felix Meritis Society on Monday evenings. He had this portrait made when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) appointed him a navigation examiner. On the table are a telescope and a sextant. De Hartog had devised a new, viable arithmetic method for calculating lunar distance while at sea.
- Artwork typepainting
- Object numberSK-A-4929
- Dimensionsheight 79 cm x width 64 cm
- Physical characteristicsolieverf op papier