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Portrait of a Couple from Suriname
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The young man portrayed here is 33-year-old Johannes Ellis, who was born in Ghana. His beautiful wife is Maria Louisa de Hart, 19 years of age. The couple is wealthy and dressed in the latest fashion. According to family tradition, the portrait dates from the year they married, 1845. We now know that it was taken in Paramaribo by one of two travelling American daguerreotypists, who visited countries in the Caribbean in the spring of 1846.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of a Couple from Suriname. c. 1846. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
