Portret van Johannes le Francq van Berkhey
Rienk Jelgerhuis
1787
Medium
etching
Dimensions
136; 99
About this artwork
De arts, dichter en schilder Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, in profiel.
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...