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Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh and an Enslaved Servant
Also titled Portret van Jan Valckenburgh en een tot slaaf gemaakte bediende
Daniel Vertangen (Amsterdam, 1600–1681)
c. 1660
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- length 128.3 cm x width 102 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, the Frans Mortelmans Stichting, the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting and the K.F. Hein Fonds
- 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
Jan Valckenburgh, married to Dina Lems (opposite), twice served as director-general of Elmina (in present-day Ghana), seen here in the distance. The young man standing behind him is one of the numerous individuals brought to Elmina by African traders in order to be sold to the Dutch. At Fort Elmina, this human trafficking was organized and coordinated by the Dutch West India Company (WIC). In total, the Dutch transported 550,000 Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean.
