Portret van Pastoor J. Bots
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
255; 192
About this artwork
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Art Historical Context
"Portret van Pasto J. Bots" is a finely detailed engraving created in 1869 by Dutch artist Petrus Johannes Arendzen. portrait captures the likeness of Pastoor J. Bots, a local pastor, reflecting the 19th-century tradition of honoring clergy through visual commemoration. At dimensions of 255mm high by 192mm wide, it exemplifies the intimate scale typical of engraved portraits, designed for personal collections or ecclesiastical settings in the Netherlands during a period of religious revival and cultural nationalism. Engraving, Arendzen's chosen medium, involves meticulously incising lines int...
About the Artist
Petrus Johannes Arendzen · 1855–1935
Petrus Johannes Arendzen (1846–1932) was a Dutch etcher, draughtsman, and painter who dedicated his career to creating reproductive etchings of Dutch paintings in English collections while living in England from 1873 onward. Born in Amsterdam in 1846, Arendzen married Epiphania, daughter of Johan Stracké, and left his native city to pursue a unique commission from the Dutch Government: to copy the...