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Portrait of Gerard Pietersz Hulft (1621-1656), First Councilor and Director-General of the Dutch East India Company
Also titled Gerard Pietersz Hulft (1621-56). Eerste raad en directeur-generaal van de VOC
Govert Flinck (Cleves, 1615–1660)
1654
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 8 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkvrouw S.J.M. Hulft - Baroness Taets van Amerongen Bequest
- 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
Gerard Pietersz Hulft by Govert Flinck, 1654. Gerard Hulft (1621-1656) was in command of the VOC fleet that attacked the trading town of Colombo on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1655, driving out the Portuguese. By forming an alliance with the ruler of the kingdom of Kandy in the interior, the Dutch managed to defeat the Portuguese, although Hulft was to die in the final days of the siege of Colombo. Before leaving for Asia, Hulft had this portrait painted. He is surrounded by attributes that befitted a Company official: a 'factuerboeck' for the accounts, legal works by Grotius (Hugo de Groot), treaties with England, plans of fortifications and navigational instruments.
