Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker
Also titled Portret van Gerard Andriesz Bicker
Bartholomeus van der Helst (Haarlem, 1613–1670)
c. 1642
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 117.5 cm x width 96 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
Like his father, the twenty-year-old Gerard Bicker is portrayed as self-assured, his arm akimbo. The striking differences in the garments worn by father and son confirm that they are from different generations. While his father Andries is dressed in dignified black clothing with an old-fashioned ruff, Gerard wears a colourful and showy outfit with a flat collar and elegant gloves. Gerard was not awarded as many key administrative positions in Amsterdam.
