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Portrait of Pieter Meijer, Publisher and Bookseller in Amsterdam
Also titled Pieter Meijer (1718-81). Uitgever en boekverkoper te Amsterdam
Hendrik Pothoven (Amsterdam, ca. –1807)
1750 - 1781
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- G. Meijer Warnars Bequest, Zutphen
- 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
Pieter Meijer, attributed to Hendrik Pothoven (1736-1807). Pieter Meijer (1718-1781) was one of the founders in 1767 of a society to promote and develop new lifesaving techniques - the Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen. Meijer was a poet who ran a bookshop and publishing company in Amsterdam, selling the publications of various societies.
