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A Dutch Merchant, Possibly Andreas…
Chitqua (attributed to), c. 1770, figure, BK-1976-49
Van Braam Houckgeest ran the Dutch East India Company (VOC) base in Canton harbour in south China from 1790 to 1795. He may have commissioned this figure of himself on a previous journey in China. Chinese sculptor Chitqua specialised in this kind of clay portrait, mainly for foreigners. Similar…
On display in room 1.5
View of Olinda, Brazil
Frans Jansz Post, 1662, painting, SK-A-742
Tempted by Brazil’s sugar plantations, in the 1630s the Dutch captured much of Portugal’s colony on South America’s western coast. They were forced to withdraw in the 1650s. Frans Post went to Brazil from 1636 to 1644 to sketch and paint the country and its inhabitants. Back in the Netherlands, he…
On display in room 2.10
The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam
Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1657, painting, SK-C-1409
On display in Gallery of Honour
The Gulf of Naples with the Island…
Josephus Augustus Knip, 1818, painting, SK-A-1058
On display in room 1.12
Plantation in Suriname
Dirk Valkenburg, 1707, painting, SK-A-4075
On display in room 1.5
Hilly Landscape with a High Road
Adriaen van de Velde, 1660 - 1672, painting, SK-A-444
Along the Coast
Louis Meijer, 1840 - 1850, painting, SK-A-1821
River Bank
Jan Brueghel (I) (copy after), 1600 - 1650, painting, SK-A-68
View of the Valley of Montmorency…
Pieter Rudolph Kleijn, 1808, painting, SK-A-645
On display in room 1.12
The Y off Amsterdam
Ludolf Bakhuysen, c. 1680 - c. 1708, painting, SK-A-12