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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The evidence for Gerrit van Goor's career is scanty, and this work acts as proof that he remained active as late as 1694. He is believed to have worked in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, and painted portraits of the Governor-Generals there. However, only one other portrait is today known by him - that in the Rijksmuseum, which seems to bear little resemblance to this painting. However Christopher Brown has pointed out that the gown suggests the sitter was member of the Dutch East India Company and that the statue is of Neptune, not Hercules. These facts support the attribution and identity of the sitter. | Subjects: | figure (philosopher) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Goor, Gerrit van (Dutch painter, active 1674-1694) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8425... | Go to resource |
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