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The details are simple: the fur trim, the crease in the paper, the way light falls on his face.

You see a man in a long fur-lined coat sitting in a chair. He holds a folded newspaper in his right hand. Behind him, a small table and a bookshelf stand against a plain wall.

This is Pieter Diederichs, a 19th-century Dutch bookseller and newspaper founder. The paper he’s holding—*Algemeen Handelsblad*—was his own, launched in 1828. The painting feels like a quiet business portrait, not a grand statement. The details are simple: the fur trim, the crease in the paper, the way light falls on his face.

To see more portraits like this, explore the Rijksmuseum.