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Acquisition
Gift of Professor C. D. Broad, 1946
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Accession number
DPG615
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Artist description
Cornelis Pronk
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Date
1714
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Dimensions
90.5 x 70.2 cm
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Inscription
Dated and signed, on the letter, bottom left: '[Amsterd]am 1714 / C. Pronk'; possibly signed again on the letter, bottom centre right: 'Pronk [D?]'; and inscribed on the same letter: 'Monsr.'
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Materials
Oil on canvas
The anonymous sitter in DPG615 wears a scarf and a silk banyan, a loose robe of Asian cut that was worn indoors for informal occasions. Across Europe there was a fashion for male portraits in such dress throughout the eighteenth-century. His desk is littered with letters, papers and receipts, and he is writing in a cash book. Pronk signed and dated the painting on one of the letters on the bottom left: a common device to include the artist's signature as part of the scene.
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