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Portrait of Eduard Wallis
Also titled Portret van Eduard Wallis
Johannes Verspronck (Haarlem, 1600–1662)
1652
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 98 cm x width 76 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Fonds Cleyndert, the Stortenbeker Fonds of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum 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
The Haarlem textile merchant Eduard Wallis presents himself with one arm akimbo, a fashionable pose that was the epitome of self-assurance. Here he wears his own merchandise, very costly black-dyed cloth, the high-quality woollen fabric of the time. Wallis was married to Maria van Strijp, who also hailed from a well-to-do textile family. With their union, they consolidated their standing in the Haarlem cloth trade.
