Four Regents and the ‘House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum

• Four Regents and the Housemaster of the Leper-House, Amsterdam
• Four Regents and the ‘House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum

SK-C-417

• date, on a piece of paper: ‘1624’
• inscription, bottom centre: ‘Siewerd Sem / Hendrick van Brouckhorst / Ernst Roeters / Dirck Vlack’

The men wearing hats are the regents, or buitenvaders, of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum, which cared for people suffering from leprosy and other ailments. The bare-headed man at left is the binnenvader, or house father, charged with the daily running of the asylum. The relief behind the group illustrates an appropriate biblical scene: dogs licking the sores of Lazarus, a beggar afflicted with leprosy.

painter: Werner van den Valckert

1624

olieverf op paneel

height 134 cm x width 209 cm

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

Commissioned by the regents and regentesses oft he Leper-House, Amsterdam, for the Regentenkamer; transferred to Amsterdam Town Hall, 1860;{Scheltema 1879, p. 51, no. 142.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1885{Provenance reconstructed in Van Thiel 1983d, p. 181, no. 18.}

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