Portret van Jacob de Wit, borstbeeld in ovaal

Portret van Jacob de Wit, borstbeeld in ovaal

RP-T-1940-409

Portret van de tekenaar en graveur Jacob de Wit, borstbeeld in ovaal met veel bijwerk.

• draftsman (artist): Jacob Houbraken
• after drawing by Jan Maurits Quinkhard

1708 - 1780

potlood, penseel in zwart en grijs, rood krijt

height 146 mm x width 94 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

purchase 1940

Public domain

…; sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 (1 December) November 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} from the auction house F. Muller, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum, 1940, with support from the F.G. Wallerfonds

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