Print Description
Original antique print showing a portrait of Rombout Hogerbeets (1561 – 1625), a Dutch statesman and jurist, tried for treason together with Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Hugo Grotius, and Gilles van Ledenberg during the political crisis of 1617-1618 in the Dutch Republic, and sentenced to life-imprisonment. He shared Loevestein prison with Grotius).
Made by Matthijs Pool after Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn.
Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 15.5 x 20.5 cm (6.1 x 8.07 inch). Image size: 13.4 x 16.7 cm. (5.28 x 6.57 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Trimms at left plate mark. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ROMBOUT HOGERBEETS-RUMOLDUS-PORTRAIT | PCO-C45-14
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in The Netherlands c. 1700.
Biography engraver: Mattys / Matthijs Pool (1670-1732) worked as a printmaker/publisher in Amsterdam. He travelled to France.
Biography artist: Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn (1572(?) – 1657) was a successful portrait painter to the Dutch court in The Hague.
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