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Hendrik van der Borcht the Younger

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Johannes Meyssens Flemish
1648
Not on view
Portrait of Hendrick van der Borcht the Younger, half-length to right, looking slightly to left; wearing heavy cloak and dark doublet with white collar, holding book open at plate of the descent from the cross by Raphael. One of nine portraits etched by Hollar, when in Antwerp, for a collection of portraits published there by Meyssens in 1649 under the title 'Image de divers hommes desprit sublime.' This based on a portrait by the publisher himself.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Hendrik van der Borcht the Younger
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Johannes Meyssens (Flemish, Brussels 1612–1670 Antwerp)
  • Sitter: Hendrik van der Borcht II (Dutch, Frankenthal 1614– ca. 1690 Antwerp)
  • Date: 1648
  • Medium: Etching; second state of five
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 5/16 in. (16.4 × 11 cm)
    cut outside the borderlines and the text but on and within the platemark
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.3.203
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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