Adriaen van Heusden

Adriaen van Heusden made life-like Dutch portraits in the late 1600s. His brush caught how people wore stiff lace collars and sober coats. In his Portrait of Michiel ten Hove (1670) you see the Delft jurist frozen mid-sentence, his white cuffs glowing against dark oak panels. Look closer and the lace’s raised threads cast shadows as if real. Slide next to see the lace itself under the same light.