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Portrait of Eduard Wallis

Johannes Verspronck and Frans Hals were active as portraitists in Haarlem around the same time. Yet it is
difficult to imagine greater differences between their styles! Verspronck painted smoothly and precisely and
lavished attention on detail. Hals’s handling is much sketchier, and his rendering of details much more
summary. The wealthy cloth merchant Eduard Wallis and his wife evidently preferre…

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  • http://iconclass.org/61B2
  • Wallis, Eduard
  • painting
  • Art of painting
  • Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Fonds Cleyndert, the Stortenbeker Fonds of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
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  • http://iconclass.org/61B2
  • Wallis, Eduard
  • painting
  • Art of painting
  • Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Fonds Cleyndert, the Stortenbeker Fonds of the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
  • Rijksmuseum
  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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  • Public Domain
  • Publiek Domein
  • 1652
  • third quarter 17th century
  • ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; estate inventory of Maria van Strijp (1627-1707), widow of Eduard Wallis, Haarlem, 17 April 1707, without attributions (‘Twee portretten van Eduard Wallis en Maria van Strijp’);{Biesboer 2001, p. 324, no. 10.} by descent to Jonkvrouwe Anna Hubertina van Reenen, née Van Reenen (1892-1974), Nijmegen and Laren; from whom on loan to the museum, 1952-2008, as portraits of an unknown couple (SK-C-1414; SK-C-1415); her daughter, Jonkvrouw Dorothea Storm de Grave, née Van Reenen (1916-2006), Huis ter Heide, 1974; …; purchased by the museum from a private collector with support from the Fonds Cleyndert, the Stortenbekerfonds of the Rembrandt Association, the BankGiro Loterij and the Rijksmuseum Fonds, 3 March 2008
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6437
  • SK-A-4999
  • height 97 cm
  • width 75 cm
  • oil paint (paint)
  • panel
  • nl
  • collection: paintings
  • collectie: schilderijen
  • 1652
  • Netherlands
  • 90402_M_NL_Rijksmuseum
  • 2014-05-27T20:16:48.931Z
  • 2018-03-17T14:38:13.764Z