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Portrait of Willem Bilderdijk
Also titled Portret van Willem Bilderdijk
Charles Howard Hodges (Portsmouth, 1764–1837)
1810
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 79 cm x width 63 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The poet and scholar Willem Bilderdijk was a committed monarchist, so in 1795 he refused to submit to French Republican rule in the Netherlands. He was exiled, but allowed to return under King Louis Napoleon. On the table is Bilderdijk’s uncompleted epic poem, The Destruction of the First World, written for Louis Napoleon. Sixth months later, the King abdicated, and Bilderdijk was once again deprived of a protector.
