# Portrait of the Photographer’s Daughter Charlotte Asser

- By: Eduard Isaac Asser (Amsterdam, 1809–1894)
- Date: c. 1842
- Medium: copper (metal), glass
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 140 mm x width 130 mm x depth 24 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-AB12282--b0330a1d299f1e1c958fb05919de653e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/frPoT/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Born into a prosperous family of Amsterdam lawyers, Asser pursued not only a legal career, but was also an amateur painter and pioneering photographer. He portrayed his friends and family, including his second daughter, Charlotte. This is one of the earliest surviving Dutch photographs. It was made c. 1842, not long after Asser had begun to experiment with the medium.