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Portrait bust to the left of poet and pastor Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (1819-1889). Growing up in The Hague, Ten Kate was a very prolific poet who could easily rhyme. His best-known poem is De Creation (1866), in which he tries to reconcile biblical and scientific viewpoints. He also translated foreign literature, including Milton's Paradise Lost and Goethe's Faust in 1879. Ten Kate, with Nicolaas Beets, Eliza Laurillard, Bernard ter Haar and J.P. Hasebroek, counted among the "pastor poets" who were popular for their moralistic poetry. Lithograph. Published by J.J. van Brederode, after a drawing by Adrianus Johannes Ehnle (1819-1863). Signed in print. Manufactured around 1840.
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