Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Johan Melchior Kemper (1776-1824), Jurist and Statesman
Also titled Johan Melchior Kemper (1776-1824). Rechtsgeleerde en staatsman
David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville (The Hague, 1770–1849)
1815
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Jonkvrouw E. Kemper
- 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
Joan Melchior Kemper (1776 - 1824) by D.P.G. Humbert de Superville, c. 1815. Former Patriot Kemper was the author of the proclamation with which Prince William of Orange presented himself as 'William I, sovereign lord' on 2 December 1813, a few days after arriving in the Netherlands. In it William I promised a constitution guaranteeing the freedom of his subjects. As a professor the jurist Kemper was the mentor of many later politicians such as Thorbecke and Groen van Prinsterer. In 1817 Kemper became a member of the Lower House. Kemper's decorations are the symbols of Commander of the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. The order was established in 1815. Kemper was a personal friend of the painter. Humbert gave Kemper's daughters drawing lessons. And Kemper had ensured that Humbert was appointed lecturer at Leiden University in 1814.
