Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol

Rijksmuseum

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol

Rembrandt van Rijn

Date
c. 1658
Medium
paper
Institution
Rijksmuseum

It is hardly a coincidence that Coppenol is portrayed holding a sheet of paper and a pen; after all, he was a calligrapher. He was not without vanity. He asked poets to write odes to his skill, which he then inscribed in calligraphy below his portrait. Rembrandt etched him twice; the first version with his grandson Antonius was probably not entirely to his liking.

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Creator

Rembrandt

Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) · 1606–1669

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