TERBORCH, Gerard
(b. 1617, Zwolle, d. 1681, Deventer)

Margaretha van Haexbergen, Wife of Jan van Duren

c. 1666
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The full-length portraits of the Deventer burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613-1687) and his wife Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614-1676) were painted in Deventer about 1666. In that year the artist himself became a representative of one of Deventer's eight wards, which placed him in regular contact with the city council. Many of Terborch's sitters of the 1660s and 1670s were members of Deventer's political elite.

After Terborch moved to Deventer in 1654, he specialised in portraits that have been described as "small-scale, full-length, stately in appearance, and remarkably spare in setting." Most of these pictures are considerably smaller than the present pendants.