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Half-length portrait of Jan Wagenaar, sitting at a writing table with a bookcase behind him. Below the portrait are name and details in three lines in Dutch and below a six line verse in Dutch by Jan de Kruyff (1706-1775). Wagenaar is a well-known Dutch historian of: "Vaderlandsche Historie containing the histories of the now United Netherlands". He was also a city historian of Amsterdam. He also wrote: "AMSTERDAM, IN ZYNE ARRIVAL, AGAIN, HISTORY (...)". Copper engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after the painting by Jacobus Buys (1724-1801) from 1766. Published in Amsterdam by Yntema & Tieboel in 1766. Signed and dated in print. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.
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