Portraitist Frans van der Mijn, the son of Dutch painter Herman van der Mijn, worked in Amsterdam and London during the course of his life. Here we see merchant Jan Pranger of the Dutch West India Company at a fort on West Africa’s Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) with an unnamed valet in the background.
Portrait of Jan Pranger, c.1742, Oil on CanvasFrans van der Mijn Netherlands (1719 - 1793) |
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Portraitist Frans van der Mijn, the son of Dutch painter Herman van der Mijn, worked in Amsterdam and London during the course of his life. Here we see merchant Jan Pranger of the Dutch West India Company at a fort on West Africa’s Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) with an unnamed valet in the background. |
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