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Portrait of David van Mollen and Son-in-Law Jacob Sydervelt with his Family
Also titled Portret van David van Mollem en schoonzoon Jacob Sydervelt met zijn gezin
Nicolaas Verkolje (Delft, 1673–1746)
1740
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 63.5 cm x width 79 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
- 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
David van Mollem (left) is seated in the garden of his country house Zijdebalen on the River Vecht. He was portrayed by Nicolaas Verkolje, who also designed his garden. Van Mollem was a silk merchant and a major shareholder of the Utrechtsche Compagnie. This Company bought the Suriname Utrecht coffee plantation in 1736 and thus became the ‘owner’ of 37 men, 20 women and 2 children, who were forced to work on the plantation unpaid.
