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Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog
Ref: sk-a-4929
Hendrick de Hartog taught mathematics at the Felix Meritis Society on Monday evenings. He had this portrait made when the Dutch East India Company (VOC) appointed him a navigation examiner. On the table are a telescope and a sextant. De Hartog had devised a new, viable arithmetic method for calculating lunar distance while at sea.
Title: Portrait of Hendrick de Hartog
Artist:
Date: 1790
Medium: canvas; oil paint (paint)
Type: painting
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