# Portrait of Andreas Mülbracht and his Wife Dorothea Catharina Machtelde Mülbracht-Lax te Goch

- By: Carl Rensing (Soest (Duitsland), 1826–1898)
- Date: c. 1845 - c. 1860
- Medium: copper (metal), paper, silver (metal), glass
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 133 mm x width 160 mm
- Credit line: Gift of M.J. van Hövell tot Westerflier, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-2003-88--8d73b1402bf449c52916ccbd5224344d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e362214455db85484220286ae9e73d41.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This portrait exhibits the magical power of daguerreotypy. The photograph of the elderly couple is pinpointsharp and exceptionally realistic. Such an image must have had a great impact on the beholders. The texture of the skin, with its wrinkles and irregularities, was captured in detail. Rensing’s work was displayed at the first photography show in Amsterdam in 1855. He established himself as a portrait photographer in the Dutch capital.