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Achterkant van het schilderij met het portret van Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825)
1771 - 1837
- Medium
- panel, paper, wood (plant material)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 45.5 cm x width 37.2 cm x depth 0.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkheer G. Schimmelpenninck, Olst
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, by C. Hodges, 1805. Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825) had been a Patriot from the very start. In 1796 he was elected to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. From 1798 he served the Republic as its representative in Paris and London. On the recommendation of France's Emperor Napoleon, in 1805, Schimmelpenninck was appointed grand pensionary. As such, he led the Batavian Republic from April 1805 to June 1806. In that short period a number of significant reforms were achieved in the fields of education and taxation. But under pressure from Napoleon, Schimmelpenninck was eventually forced to resign from office.
