Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Depicted
Peter Stuyvesant
(1610 – 1672)
Petrus (Peter) Stuyvesant (1611/12–1672)
1660-1669
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 22 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (57.2 × 44.5 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 in. × 25 in. × 2 1/2 in. (74.3 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 in. × 25 in. × 2 1/2 in. (74.3 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)
Gift of Robert Van Rensselaer Stuyvesant
1909.2
By 1635, Peter Stuyvesant, a native of west Friesland, the Netherlands, was employed by the Dutch West India Co. and sent to Brazil. In 1643 he was made governor of Curaçao and other Dutch islands of the West Indies; during an expedition against the Portuguese on St. Martin in 1644 his right leg was wounded, requiring amputation. In 1646 he was appointed director general of New Netherland; he served in that office until the colony came under British rule in 1664.
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Collections
- Age of Exploration and Dutch New York
Peter Stuyvesant
preserved in 1867
1867.439
