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Portrait of Alida Christina Assink
Also titled Portret van Alida Christina Assink
Jan Adam Kruseman (Haarlem, 1804–1862)
1833
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 206 cm x width 149 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of 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
This portrait of Alida Assink presents her in her finest attire, depicted from head to toe. That is quite exceptional, as the painter Kruseman typically reserved such a full-length portrait exclusively for royalty. Assink was 23 years old when this likeness was commissioned by her guardian, a wealthy landowner. The rural setting with hunting dog and garden vase harks back to the English portrait style, which Kruseman admired.
