Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles

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Portrait of Adam Wachendorff, with a Putto Blowing Bubbles

Creator

Cornelis Ketel

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1548-1616) · 1548–1616

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Date
1574
Medium
panel, oil paint (paint)
Culture
London
Institution
Rijksmuseum
Object ID
SK-A-4046

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The sitter, Adam Wachendorff, can be identified from the family coat of arms on his watch case. He was the secretary of the London offices of the Hanseatic League, a trading alliance of European cities. The Greek inscription on the original frame (‘Man is a soap bubble’) and the naked youth blowing bubbles on the reverse allude to the transience of human life.

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