Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog
1790
- Medium
- canvas
- Dimensions
- 79 × 64 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-116659
Hendrick de Hartog taught mathematics at the Felix Meritis Society on Monday evenings. He had this portrait made when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) appointed him a navigation examiner. On the table are a telescope and a sextant. De Hartog had devised a new, viable arithmetic method for calculating lunar distance while at sea.
Provenance
Gift of V.E. Schaefer, Laren (Noord-Holland) and F. Schaefer-de Balbian Verster, Laren (Noord-Holland)
Registry history
- 1790 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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