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5304433
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
ABRAHAM BOGAERT.
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17,5 x 13,3
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Portrait bust to the left of Abraham Bogaert (1663-1727) in an architectural, illusionistic three-dimensional oval bearing his name, with his cloak protruding over the edge. Below the portrait a plinth on which a plaque with a four-line verse in Dutch by David Fransz. from Hoogstraten. Top right: At the front. Bogaert was chief physician in Batavia, a merchant and upon his return to the Netherlands he settled in Amsterdam as a pharmacist. Copper engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after a drawing by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746). Made in Amsterdam around 1720. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.

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