# Portrait of Jacobus Arminius

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SWANENBURG, Willem Isaacsz. van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Engraving, 159 x 107 mm

## Commentary

Portrait of Jacobus Arminius c. 1609 Engraving, 159 x 107 mm British Museum, London This portrait of Jacobus Arminius \(1560-1609\) shows the sitter half-length turned slightly to the right, but facing the viewer, wearing a fur-trimmed robe and a ruff. Arminius was a theologian from Leiden. The portrait is within an oval on which a motto is lettered: &#34;Bona Conscientia Paradisus.&#34; The portrait belongs to a series of thirty-four portraits by Swanenburg which illustrated the book &#34;Athena Batava&#34; by Joannes Meursius \(Andries Clouck: Leiden 1625\).

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## Attribution

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