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Portrait of Andries Bicker
Also titled Portret van Andries Bicker
Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem, 1613–1670)
1642
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 93.5 cm x width 70.5 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
Andries Bicker, a merchant in Russia and dealer in spices, wielded enormous administrative power. He was elected mayor of Amsterdam ten times, represented the city in the States-General, and served as ambassador to the Scandinavian nations, Poland and the Duchy of Brandenburg. When he sat to the celebrated Amsterdam portraitist Van der Helst, the Bickers were the most powerful family in the city.
