# Burgomaster Jan van Duren [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TERBORCH, Gerard]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm ## Commentary Burgomaster Jan van Duren c. 1666 Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The full-length portraits of the Deventer burgomaster Jan van Duren \(1613-1687\) and his wife Margaretha van Haexbergen \(1614-1676\) were painted in Deventer about 1666. In that year the artist himself became a representative of one of Deventer's eight wards, which placed him in regular contact with the city council. Many of Terborch's sitters of the 1660s and 1670s were members of Deventer's political elite. After Terborch moved to Deventer in 1654, he specialised in portraits that have been described as "small-scale, full-length, stately in appearance, and remarkably spare in setting." Most of these pictures are considerably smaller than the present pendants. ## Related artworks - [A Concert]() - [A Lady Reading a Letter]() - [A Woman Spinning]() - [A Young Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men]() - [An Officer Writing a Letter]() - [Boy Ridding his Dog of Fleas]() - [Card-Players]() - [Curiosity]() - [Helena van der Schalcke as a Child]() - [Lady at her Toilette]() - [Lady Reading a Letter \(detail\)]() - [Man Offering a Woman Coins]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()