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Portrait of Jan Pranger and an Enslaved Servant
Also titled Portret van Jan Pranger en een tot slaaf gemaakte bediende
Frans van der Mijn (Düsseldorf, 1719–1783)
1742
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 210 cm x width 154.5 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
This scene is set at Fort Elmina, the headquarters of the Dutch slave trade in Western Africa, where Jan Pranger was director from 1730 to 1742. After his directorship, he travelled back via Suriname with ‘170 Slaves, coming from the coast of Guinea’ on board. The enslaved people remained behind in Paramaribo, except for one who accompanied him to Amsterdam as a servant, where this portrait was painted.
