Adriaen Backer

1635–1684 · Baroque

Adriaen Backer was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, active in Amsterdam and Haarlem.

13 paintings

• The regents of the Walenweeshuis, Amsterdam, 1670 or 1671 (1671)
• Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (1655)
• The Elevation of the Cross (1683)
• Two orphans presenting heraldic shields to two regentesses (1650)
• Governors and Governesses of the Oudemannen- en Vrouwengasthuis (1676)
• Allegorical Portrait of Anthony de Bordes and His Son Anthony (1673)
• Semiramis receives word of the uprising in Babylon (1669)
• Regentesses of the Amsterdam Orphanage (Burger Weeshuis) (1683)
• Un general (1680)
• Portrait of Daniel Nellius, elder of the Remonstrant church and sampling official of Alkmaar (1671)
• The superintendents of the Collegium Medicum in Amsterdam (1683)
• The Commissioners of the Walloons in Amsterdam (1674)
• Anatomical lesson from Frederik Ruysch (1670)