Portrait of the printmaker, painter and poet Jan Luyken. A putto holds a laurel wreath above the oval with the portrait. Other putti carry a cross, censer or burning hearts. On the ground is an emperor's apple with reading children, who are distracted by a figure with a winged headgear, possibly Mercury. Mercury lets sunlight fall through a magnifying glass on the scene below him. On the ground are drawing and painting supplies, books and a bible. A woman with a scroll in her hand points to the portrait. On the pedestal in a cartouche the date of birth and death of Luyken and an eulogy in Dutch, Portrait of Jan Luiken Portrait of Jan Luyken., print maker: Pieter Sluyter, (mentioned on object), A. Houbraken, (mentioned on object), Adriaan Spinniker, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1712 - 1747, paper, etching, engraving, h 222 mm × w 160 mm