Artist
Gerrit Kamphuysen
Gerrit Kamphuysen is a Rococo painting artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them works in ivory. Gerrit Kamphuysen was born in Groningen.
Dutch artists in the 1700s often painted tiny portraits on ivory for keepsakes. Gerrit Kamphuysen made more than 50 of these, mostly small ovals worn as lockets or attached to snuffboxes. In the Gallery you’ll find three of them: a stern-looking Duke of Brunswick on ivory, the duke’s wife Anna painted in 1756, and William IV wearing his orange sash.
Swipe to the Duke’s portrait to see how a single inch of ivory could hold a whole face in fine detail.
Works by Gerrit Kamphuysen
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