Portrait of Andries de Graeff

Catalogue number: Bredius 216.

In Rembrandt's work full-length portraits are the exception, clients seeming to have favoured half-length portraits, generally for reasons of cost. Those, then, who had themselves portrayed life-size had a specific goal in mind: to demonstrate their wealth and status. The subject was identified only recently as Andries de Graeff (1611-1778), burgomaster of Amsterdam and patron of the arts.