Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh and an Enslaved Servant

• Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh and an Enslaved Servant
• Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh

Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh

SK-A-4969

Jan Valckenburgh, married to Dina Lems (opposite), twice served as director-general of Elmina (in present-day Ghana), seen here in the distance. The young man standing behind him is one of the numerous individuals brought to Elmina by African traders in order to be sold to the Dutch. At Fort Elmina, this human trafficking was organized and coordinated by the Dutch West India Company (WIC). In total, the Dutch transported 550,000 Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen.

painter: Daniel Vertangen (signed by artist), Amsterdam

c. 1660

olieverf op doek

length 128.3 cm x width 102.0 cm

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

purchase 2001-08-30

Public domain

…; sale, Dr H.B. VerLoren van Themaat et al., Amsterdam (Mak), 1 December 1925 sqq., no. 95, fl. 135, to Diederik Arnold Mauritz Scholten (1874-1948), The Hague, and Cornelia Johanna Scholten - De Bas (1884-1949);{Copy RKD; note RMA.}….; Danish private collection;{Note RMA.}…; anonymous sale [section 'property of a Gentleman'], London (Christie's), 10 july 1998, no. 31, £ 84,000;{Copy RKD.}…; from the dealer Johnny van Haeften, London, £ 160,000, to the museum, with support from the Mondriaan stichting, Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, De Frans Mortelmans stichting, M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bijlandt Stichting and Stichting K.F. Hein Fonds, 2001

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Documentatiemap Schilderijen.
• European Paintings, Londen/New York (The Matthiesen Gallery & Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc.) 2001, p. 24-27
• Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2001, Amsterdam 2002, p. 60-63, afb.
• G. van der Ham, 'Aan de Afrikaanse Kust', Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, jan./feb. 2002, p. 18, 19 (afbeelding)

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