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Jan Daniël Huichelbos van Liender, Petronella van Liender and Adriana Reepmaker in an English Iron Foundry
Also titled Jan Daniël Huichelbos van Liender, Petronella van Liender en Adriana Reepmaker in een Engelse ijzergieterij
Adriaan de Lelie (Tilburg, 1755–1820)
1808
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 79 cm x width 63 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum International Circle
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
While wind and water were still the primary sources of energy in the Netherlands, the Rotterdam merchant Huichelbos van Liender visited this English iron foundry to see inventor James Watt’s steam engine in operation. A worker shows him, in the company of his half-sister and a family friend, a piece of iron ore or coal. Van Liender became Watt’s Dutch representative and a driving force behind the introduction of steam power in his homeland.
