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Portrait of the Inspectors of the Collegium Medicum
Also titled Portret van de inspecteurs van het Collegium Medicum
Cornelis Troost (Amsterdam, 1696–1750)
1724
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 245 cm x width 315 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The Collegium Medicum consisted of doctors and apothecaries and oversaw the practice of medicine in Amsterdam. The second man from the left, apothecary Jeronimo de Bosch, is known to have supplied the medicine chest to the slave ship Leusden, which ran aground off Suriname in 1738. This shipwreck became infamous because sailors locked the hatches of the lower deck. Consequently, 664 West-African men, women and children were trapped inside and perished.
