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Portrait of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym
Also titled Portret van Jan Willemsz van der Pluym
1635
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 20.8 cm x width 16.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Henry M. Holterman Family
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Like his forefathers, Jan van der Pluym, here aged 69, was a prosperous slater and plumber in Leiden. Upon his death, he left behind 15 residential houses and to each of his four children 16,000 guilders. These portraits are the smallest Rembrandt ever painted. In contrast to his more formal commissions from strangers, the execution of these family likenesses is very free and sketchy. The artist may have made them as a personal favour.
