Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Depicted
Francis Adrian Van der Kemp
(1752 - 1829)
Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp (1752-1829)
1787
Oil on canvas
Overall: 20 1/4 × 17 1/4 in. (51.4 × 43.8 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Fairchild
1922.5
The subject was born in Kampen, the Netherlands, the son of John and Anna (Leydekker) Van der Kemp. He was ordained a minister at Leyden in 1776. This portrait was painted at the request of some of his friends while he was in prison in Utrecht in 1787. Banished from Holland because of his controversial political views, he brought his family to America in 1788. The portrait descended through the family to his granddaughter, Pauline E. Henry, from whom it was acquired by the donor.
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