Portrait of Willem Bilderdijk

• Portrait of Willem Bilderdijk
• Willem Bilderdijk (1759-1831), Poet and Historian

SK-A-1453

signature and date: ‘door C.H. Hodges in't Jaar MDCCCX’

The poet and scholar Willem Bilderdijk was a committed monarchist, so in 1795 he refused to submit to French Republican rule in the Netherlands. He was exiled, but allowed to return under King Louis Napoleon. On the table is Bilderdijk’s uncompleted epic poem, The Destruction of the First World, written for Louis Napoleon. Sixth months later, the King abdicated, and Bilderdijk was once again deprived of a protector.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: Charles Howard Hodges

1810

olieverf op doek

height 79 cm x width 63 cm

purchase 1888-03

Public domain

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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