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Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog
Also titled Portret van Hendrick de Hartog
Adriaan de Lelie (Tilburg, 1755–1820)
1790
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 79 cm x width 64 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of V.E. Schaefer, Laren (Noord-Holland) and F. Schaefer-de Balbian Verster, Laren (Noord-Holland)
- 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
Hendrick de Hartog taught mathematics at the Felix Meritis Society on Monday evenings. He had this portrait made when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) appointed him a navigation examiner. On the table are a telescope and a sextant. De Hartog had devised a new, viable arithmetic method for calculating lunar distance while at sea.
