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Portrait of Dina Lems, Wife of Jan Valckenburgh
Valckenburgh was married to Dina Lems, daughter of a high-ranking official of the Dutch East India Company. Her extensive pearls attest to her wealth. Both Dina’s father and her husband amassed fortunes in the trade of slaves, ivory and gold. They also handled the sort of pepper seeds known as ‘grains of paradise’, grown on the west coast of Africa. Not for nothing then does Dina point at the pepp…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61BB2
- http://iconclass.org/25G3(PALM-TREE)
- http://iconclass.org/41D26611(+82)
- Elmina
- Elmina
- Valckenburgh, Jan
- West-Indische Compagnie
- Lems, Dina
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, the Frans Mortelmans Stichting, the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting and the K.F. Hein Fonds
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61BB2
- http://iconclass.org/25G3(PALM-TREE)
- http://iconclass.org/41D26611(+82)
- Elmina
- Elmina
- Valckenburgh, Jan
- West-Indische Compagnie
- Lems, Dina
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, the Frans Mortelmans Stichting, the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting and the K.F. Hein Fonds
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
- 1660
- 1660
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Places
- Amsterdam
- Amsterdam
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.41
Provenance
- See the provenance for SK-A-4969.
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363286
- SK-A-4970
Extent
- length 128.3 cm
- width 102.0 cm
Format
- oil paint (paint)
- canvas
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1660
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:47.826Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:13.139Z