Portret van Charles graaf van Vergennes
Rienk Jelgerhuis
1786
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
100; 98; 148; 35
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
About the Artist
Rienk Jelgerhuis · 1729–1806
Rienk Jelgerhuis (1729–1806) was a prolific Dutch portrait painter, engraver, and draftsman whose extraordinary productivity—producing no fewer than 7,763 documented portraits during his career—made him one of the most industrious portraitists of the eighteenth-century Netherlands. Born in the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden and dying in Amsterdam, Jelgerhuis built his reputation as an itinerant por...