Portret van Hendrik Danielsz. Hooft
Rienk Jelgerhuis
1787
Medium
etching
Dimensions
371; 266
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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...