Word: gerritsen
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
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