# Portrait of David van Mollen and Son-in-Law Jacob Sydervelt with his Family

- By: Nicolaas Verkolje (Delft, 1673–1746)
- Date: 1740
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 63.5 cm x width 79 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1658--0cd2cccaea1cbfc90026314059a40524)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/dbe9bd89fcf0c7c47c596a4e85740719.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.