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Portrait of Cornelis van Aerssen, Lord of Sommelsdijk, Governor of Suriname from 1683
Also titled Cornelis van Aerssen (1637-88), heer van Sommelsdijk. Sedert 1683 gouverneur van Suriname
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck, governor of Surinam. Anonymous, c. 1680. Between 1683 and 1795 Surinam was run by the Sociëteit van Suriname. The Dutch West India Company and the city of Amsterdam held two-thirds of the shares. The rest were owned (until 1770) by the Van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck family. Cornelis (1637-1688) was appointed governor of Surinam in 1683. He reshaped the local administration with brutal efficiency and eventually died in Paramaribo (Surinam), killed by rioting troops.
