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Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch
The two painters produced this portrait to commemorate their youngest brother, Moses, who was born
in 1645. Moses died in 1667 during the storming of Fort Languard near Felixstowe in England. He had served in the Dutch navy against the English since 1664. In the painting Moses is surrounded by symbols that allude to his military life: time (the pocket watch), death (the skull), eternity (the ivy o…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2(+55)
- http://iconclass.org/23U22
- http://iconclass.org/34B11
- http://iconclass.org/31F11
- http://iconclass.org/45C221
- http://iconclass.org/25F711(BUTTERFLY)
- http://iconclass.org/25F72(SNAIL)
- …
- Helmet
- Raid on the Medway
- Harwich
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2(+55)
- http://iconclass.org/23U22
- http://iconclass.org/34B11
- http://iconclass.org/31F11
- http://iconclass.org/45C221
- http://iconclass.org/25F711(BUTTERFLY)
- http://iconclass.org/25F72(SNAIL)
- …
- Helmet
- Raid on the Medway
- Harwich
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1667 - 1669
- 1667/1669
- 1667/1669
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ? testament Gesina ter Borch (1630-90), Zwolle 16 (?) April 1690, (‘En zullen al mijn conterfeitsels, en van broeder Moses en van vader en moeder en bestevader en bestemoeder, … niet verkoft, maar voor de kinderen bewaart moeten worden’);{Houck 1899, p. 156.} …; collection Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1802-70), New York, 1853;{Coll. cat. New York 1853, p. 11, no. 147 (‘portrait of William, Prince of Orange and King of England’) Coll. cat. New York 1853b, p. 88, no. 147 (‘William, Prince of Orange’).} by whom donated to The New York Historical Society, 2 April 1867; periodically on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c. 1979-94;{McNeil Kettering 1995, p. 317.} sale The New York Historical Society, New York (Sotheby’s), 12 January 1995, no. 33, $310,000 to the museum, with support from the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.309349
- SK-A-4908
Extent
- height 76.2 cm
- width 56.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:58.692Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:12.421Z