Portret van een priester, mogelijk pastoor Johannes Van Baesrode (c. 1702-1759)

About this artwork

…; collection Gerardus Murray Bakker (1861-1938), Amsterdam, by 1927;{Written communication A. Staring to J. Leeuwenberg, 18 July 1949.} acquired by Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), Huize Oostermeer, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, 1930; his widow Désirée Louise Anna Ernestine (Dési) Goudstikker-Von Halban (1912-1996), Huize Oostermeer, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, 1940;{Written communication from the then management of the Rijksmuseum to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 1 July 1949. The pie...

About the Artist

Jan Baptist Xavery · 1697–1742

**Jan Baptist Xavery** (1697–1742) was a Flemish sculptor born in Antwerp who became the leading figure in sculpture in the Dutch Republic during the first half of the eighteenth century. He worked across a wide range of media and scales, from intimate ivory and terracotta statuettes for private collectors to monumental garden statues, portrait busts, church furnishings, and elaborate tomb monumen...