Dus trof men PATER, die, van 't opgaan zyner jaaren,  

• Jacob Houbraken 

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  Willem Joseph Laquy
• Copper engraving 
• Print signature 
• P. Meijer 

Portrait of writer and poet Lucas Pater (1707-1781), sitting in an armchair at a table, with a writing feather in his hand. In front of him a sheet of paper and an inkwell with a writing feather in it. In the background a bookcase. At the bottom a 6-line verse in Dutch by Bernardus de Bosch. Etching and engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after the painting by Willem Joseph Laquy (1738-1798). Published in Amsterdam by P. Meijer in 1774. Signed and dated in print. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.

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