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Portrait of Laurens Reael
Also titled Portret van Laurens Reael
Cornelis van der Voort (Antwerp, 1576–1624)
c. 1620
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 223 cm x width 127 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
In the early days of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), key administrators debated the deployment of enslaved people. Governor General Laurens Reael, for example, did not see slavery as a solution to the labour shortage. This was not based on moral grounds for, according to him, they would always try to flee, ‘because it is difficult to forget the pleasures of the country where one was born and raised.’
