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

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