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| Keywords: Zaffius jacobus 1611.JPG en Portret of Jacobus Hendricksz Zaffius the Catholic archdeacon for the underground Catholics of Haarlem An old man at the time the painting was made he witnessed the siege of Haarlem and the subsequent loss of the central Haarlem Catholic St Bavo Cathedral to the Protestants Though still active for the Catholic underground church he was tolerated and not harassed by the Haarlem council He sponsored 5 rooms for the Frans Loenen Hofje in 1609 which was memorialized with a plaque that states Quinque camera a praeposito Zaffio Fundate A 1609 ÆTATIS SVAE 77 ANo 1611 10811 Long considered a Hals fragment cut down from a three-quarter-length portrait examination concluded that it was never cut down but was always this format Because the engraving by Jan van de Velde in 1630 shows him seated at a table with a skull PJJ van Thiel 1993 concluded this was a copy after a lost original but Slive and Grimm have since claimed that this portrait is the original Frans Hals Museum Frans Hals Museum 54 6 x 41 2 cm oil on panel Creator Frans Hals ca 1611 <gallery>File Frans Hals and Jan van de Velde - portrait of Jacobus Zaffius seated at a table with skull jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 Paintings in the Frans Hals Museum Jacobus Zaffius Portrait paintings of males by Frans Hals 1611 17th-century portraits with coat of arms Male fur clothing in art Fur fashion in 1611 | ||||
