Portrait of Andries Bicker

• Andries Bicker (1586-1652). Trader with Russia and Burgomaster of Amsterdam
• Portrait of Andries Bicker

SK-A-146

• signature and date: ‘B. vander helst 1642.’
• inscription: ‘Aetas 56’

Andries Bicker, a merchant in Russia and dealer in spices, wielded enormous administrative power. He was elected mayor of Amsterdam ten times, represented the city in the States-General, and served as ambassador to the Scandinavian nations, Poland and the Duchy of Brandenburg. When he sat to the celebrated Amsterdam portraitist Van der Helst, the Bickers were the most powerful family in the city.

Judith van Gent, 'Een 'vleyend penceel' : Bertholomeus van der Helst : begaafd schilder van de Amsterdamse elite', Ons Amsterdam 63 (2011) nr. 10, p. 408.

painter: Bartholomeus van der Helst

1642

olieverf op paneel

height 93.5 cm x width 70.5 cm

Het pendant 'Trijn Jansdr. Tengnagel (1595-1652)' is aanwezig in de collectie van het Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, inv.nr. 1595.

purchase 1848

Public domain

Judith van Gent, 'Een 'vleyend penceel' : Bertholomeus van der Helst : begaafd schilder van de Amsterdamse elite', Ons Amsterdam 63 (2011) nr. 10, p. 408.

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109368