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Portraits of Jacob van de Merckt and His Wife Petronella Witsen

1628 · Private collection

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Jacob van der Merckt (1599-1653) was an Amsterdam merchant, who traded with Italy, the Levant and Greenland, and was the Regent of the Aalmoezenierweeshuis (Orphanage) in Amsterdam. He married Petronella Witsen (1602-1676) in 1628. The present pictures are marriage portraits.

Portraits of Jacob van de Merckt and His Wife Petronella Witsen

About the Artist

Hendrick Gerritsz Pot

1580 – 1657

Dutch painter, a pupil of Karl van Mander. He probably came into contact with Frans Hals, whose large-scale genre scenes he sometimes imitated. His artistic production, however, was oriented towards portraits and small-sized genre paintings. The small genre scenes in carefully worked-out interiors show their debt to Willem Buytewech.

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