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In Focus
This portrait photograph of the artist J.H. Weissenbruch belongs to a special group of unique and early photographs, which are fragile because of the way they were made. The photograph reproduced here is one of 27 albumen prints in the collection. These photographs labelled as ‘Preciosa’ are kept in cold-storage in order to preserve them. A total of about 700 artists’ portraits has been digitised.
These are accessible through the art objects database RKDimages, which contains more than 3200 artists’ portraits. Artists’ portraits are also being added to records in the RKDartists& database. On show until mid-September is the exhibition From stately portrait to snapshot. Artists’ portraits from the RKD Collection
Maurits Verveer Portrait of J.H. Weissenbruch
(1824-1903) (albumen print) The Hague,
RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), inv. no RKD-PF-17
The RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) is one of the most important art-historical information centres in the world. Our extensive collections, which incorporate the documentation of the ‘Iconographisch Bureau’, relate to Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. The RKD is an essential resource for art historians and anyone else with an interest in art, whether professional or private.