# Portrait of Gerard Pietersz. Hulft [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MUSSCHER, Michiel van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 49 x 40 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Gerard Pietersz. Hulft 1677 Oil on canvas, 49 x 40 cm Private collection Gerard Pietersz. Hulft \(1621-1656\) was the first councillor and director-general of the Dutch East India Company \(V.O.C.\) in 1654. He perished, as commandor-in-chief, at a young age in 1656 in the siege of Colombo. There is a portrait of Hulft by Govaert Flinck in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. ## Related artworks - [A Doctor in His Studio \(detail\)]() - [A Doctor in His Studio]() - [A Young Girl at a Table]() - [The Painter's Studio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()