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Portrait of Jacob Jacobsz Steendam, Poet and Historian in Amsterdam, New Amsterdam and Batavia
Also titled Jacob Jacobsz Steendam (1615-73). Dichter en historicus te Amsterdam, Nieuw-Amsterdam en Batavia
Jan Maurits Quinkhard (Rees, 1688–1772)
1732 - 1771
- Medium
- copper (metal), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 11 cm x width 9.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Jacob Jacobsz Steendam, by J.M. Quinckhard, 18th century. Colonist, merchant and man of letters, Jacob Steendam (1615-1673) lived in New Amsterdam, a Dutch settlement later captured and renamed New York by the English. He imported slaves to New Netherland from West Africa. Steendam is better known for his poetry. It was in New Netherland that he wrote his Prickelvaersen encouraging the foundation of a colony on the Delaware river.
