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Portrait of Cornelis Apostool, First Director of the Rijksmuseum
Also titled Portret van Cornelis Apostool, eerste directeur van het Rijksmuseum
Charles Howard Hodges (Portsmouth, 1764–1837)
c. 1816
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 73 cm x width 53 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C. Apostool Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
After the defeat of Napoleon, the director of the Rijks-museum, Apostool, was responsible for retrieving the art that had been stolen from the Netherlands and taken to France. In 1816 he returned triumphantly with most of it. This portrait was probably made on that occasion. Apostool wears the order of the knighthood that he received. The catalogue in his hand, from the Musée Français in Paris, is open to the Dutch school.
