The Art Gallery of Josephus Augustinus Brentano

Adriaan de Lelie created this group portrait in 1790 within the Netherlands. Executed in oil paint on a panel, the work depicts Josephus Augustinus Brentano alongside a lute player and elements of his art collection. The painting currently resides in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

The Art Gallery of Josephus Augustinus Brentano is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, where it is housed as an oil-on-panel group portrait painted by Adriaan de Lelie in 1790.

No specific inventory or accession number is recorded in the available sources, and no exhibition history beyond its presence in the Rijksmuseum collection is documented.

The work, painted in 1790 by Adriaan de Lelie, was later described in Rijksmuseum records as a group portrait featuring Josephus Augustinus Brentano as the lute player. Its status as an oil on panel depiction of Brentano contributed to scholarly attention on Brentano's artistic circle, though specific later exhibitions or market transactions are not documented in the provided sources.

Adriaan de Lelie, a Dutch painter born in Tilburg in 1755, completed the oil‑on‑canvas work The Art Gallery of Josephus Augustinus Brentano in 1796. The painting is part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection and presents a detailed interior scene of an aristocratic art collection.

The work captures a moment when affluent collectors displayed their holdings within their own homes, a practice that grew alongside the rise of a middle‑class taste for cultured leisure. The inclusion of a musical instrument further signals the era’s association of visual and performing arts within cultivated domestic life.