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Description: | This small Dutch portrait shows a gentleman at his writing desk in what is presumably a fanciful interior. In the background we can see a classical portico and a distant garden. The sitter, who wears a fashionable powdered wig and embroidered waistcoat, has probably made his fortune through trade as there is a statue of the god Mercury on the balustrade, whose attribute, the caduceus, represents commerce. | Subjects: | portrait; buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dutch School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to manner of Horemans, Jan Josef, II (Flemish painter, 1714-after 1790) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8573... | Go to resource |
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