Portrait of Jonas Witsen

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Portrait of Jonas Witsen

Creator

Jacobus Houbraken

Dutch engraver (1698-1780) · 1698–1780

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Date
1749 - 1780
Medium
paper
Culture
Amsterdam
Institution
Rijksmuseum
Object ID
RP-P-OB-48.396

In 1702 Jonas Witsen became the owner of the Waterland, Surimombo and Palmeneribo Plantations in Suriname. They were the lucrative legacy of his wife Sara Scharphuijzen, who died in childbirth. Witsen had never been to Suriname nor did he have any intention of ever going. While he did not know the enslaved men, women and children personally, the measures he took in Amsterdam directly impacted their lives.

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