# Portraits of Jacob van de Merckt and His Wife Petronella Witsen

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/portraits-of-jacob-van-de-merckt-and-his-wife-petronella-witsen-rfc1d8edec85875>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [POT, Hendrick Gerritsz](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak panel, 42 x 32 cm \(each\)

## Commentary

Jacob van der Merckt \(1599-1653\) was an Amsterdam merchant, who traded with Italy, the Levant and Greenland, and was the Regent of the Aalmoezenierweeshuis \(Orphanage\) in Amsterdam. He married Petronella Witsen \(1602-1676\) in 1628. The present pictures are marriage portraits. The sitters are identified by labels pasted to the backs of the panels. Pot favoured small-scale full length portraits as exemplified by the present panels.

## Related artworks

- [Officers of the Civic Guard of St Adrian \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/officers-of-the-civic-guard-of-st-adrian-detail-r64d9d8bf4752b3>)
- [Officers of the Civic Guard of St Adrian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/officers-of-the-civic-guard-of-st-adrian-r256c1af8b71314>)
- [Portrait of a Young Woman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/portrait-of-a-young-woman-r0c7a414df239e4>)
- [The Miser](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/the-miser-r606f9bfab148af>)
- [The Painter in his Studio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/the-painter-in-his-studio-re72c927eee8eb2>)
- [Vanity](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pot-hendrick-gerritsz-raf1dfbb3db0373/vanity-r03d1753246f149>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)