Pieter Boddaert.

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• ARTIST: Jacob Houbraken

• MEDIUM: Engraving,

  DATE: c.1770

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 x 5 1/4"

• DESCRIPTION: Pieter Boddaert (1694–1760), a Dutch physician, naturalist, and classical scholar active in the intellectual circles of the eighteenth-century Netherlands. The portrait was engraved by the accomplished Dutch engraver Jacob Houbraken, whose refined portrait engravings after painted likenesses became an important component of Dutch book illustration and biographical publishing during the period.<BR><BR> Boddaert was born in Middelburg and distinguished himself through a career that combined medicine, classical learning, and natural history. He is remembered particularly for his scholarly interests in zoology and the classification of animals, contributing to the broader Enlightenment pursuit of scientific order and empirical study of the natural world. Like many learned figures of the Dutch Republic, Boddaert participated in the republic of letters, engaging in correspondence and scholarly exchange that connected physicians, antiquarians, and natural philosophers across Europe.<BR><BR> Houbraken’s engraved portrait presents Boddaert in a formal bust-length composition, generally enclosed within an oval frame and accompanied by identifying inscriptions. Executed with the engraver’s characteristic precision, the portrait demonstrates careful modulation of line and subtle cross-hatching that conveys both the sitter’s physiognomy and the textures of hair, drapery, and costume. Such portrait engravings were frequently produced for inclusion in biographical series and scholarly publications, where they served both commemorative and documentary functions.

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• CONDITION: Good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Cartographers, Scientists & Philosophers