# Portrait of Edwin vom Rath’s Pug

- By: Conradijn Cunaeus (Dendermonde, 1828–1895)
- Date: c. 1880 - c. 1895
- Medium: paper, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 296 mm x width 395 mm
- Credit line: J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1941-89--3d844184a80d222422a2ed8eb9347fb1)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/55de6d01dcd444d348ab20a11e972f06.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

After his parents died, the unmarried and childless Edwin vom Rath stayed on alone in the vast family house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. His only company was his pug, here portrayed by the dog painter Conradijn Cunaeus. Vom Rath used the fortune his family had amassed in trading and processing cane sugar to buy art and to support a variety of cultural institutions.