Commelijn, Isaac [1598-1676]

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Isaac Commelijn [1598-1676]

Dutch publisher historian and editor, originally of Leiden. Moved to Amsterdam in 1641. His main works include a History of Amsterdam and the important illustrated compilation of early Dutch voyages Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereeinighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Ost-indische Compagnie.... published in Amsterdam by Jan Jansson in 2 volumes in 1645/6. His son Jan Commelin [d.1698] was director of the Amsterdam Physic Garden & published an important botanical work, Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum ... plantarum ... descriptio et icones,. 2 vols [Amsterdam, 1697-1701]

Bildniss des Geschichtsschreibers Dapper / das Original im Städelschen Institut zu Frankfurt

Medium : Steel engraving

Size : [Plate] 13 x 19.5 cms [Image] 11.5 x 15 cms

Date of Publication : c.1850

Engraver / Publisher : Eekhout pinx. J Eissenhardt rad. Verlag von E A Seeman in Leipzig.

Source : From an original painting by Dutch artist, Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout [1621-1674] dated 1669, preserved in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. The engraving is the work of the German 19th Century German engraver, Johann Kaspar Eissenhardt [1824-1896]. The book open beside the sitter is a History of Amsterdam, and a large map of the City of Amsterdam hangs on the wall in the background on the engraving.

NB. Some clues within the painting & its likely date have now made the original attribution of the sitter of this painting as "Dapper" extremely unlikely. Just visible in the upper right of the image are the words "Aetatis 71, 1669" - which suggests a birth date for the sitter of 1598. Given the age of the subject, it is now generally agreed by scholars that the sitter is the Amsterdam book editor and historian, Isaac Commelijn [1598-1676]

Refs : J. Sander & Bodo Brinkmann: Niederländische Gemälde vor 1800 im Städel [Frankfurt am Main 1995]; Kopstukken. Amsterdammers portretteerd 1600-1800 [Amsterdam, Historisch Museum, Amsterdam 2002]; Volker Manuth : Twee portretten van de Amsterdamse boekhandelaar-historicus Isaac Commelin door Gerbrand van den Eeckhout en Pieter van Anraedt, Amstelodamum Maandblad 89, no. 6 (2002): 3-11.

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