# Portrait of Adam de Coster [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JODE, Pieter de, II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Engraving, 239 x 168 mm ## Commentary Portrait of Adam de Coster c. 1630 Engraving, 239 x 168 mm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Adam de Coster \(1586-1643\) was a contemporary Flemish painter. This engraving was executed after a painting in grisaille by van Dyck. The portrait was included in van Dyck's "Iconography" \(Icones Principum Virorum\), a collection of portraits of leading personalities of van Dyck's time. Below his portrait de Coster is described as a Pictor Noctium i.e. a 'Painter of Nights', a clear reference to his preference for tenebrist scenes. ## Related artworks - [Landscape with the Holy Family]() - [Portrait of Andreas Colyns de Nole]() - [Portrait of Frans Wouters]() - [Portrait of Pieter de Jode II]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()