In this intimate full-length portrait, the Deventer burgomaster (chief magistrate) Gerhard van Suchtelen (1640–1722) stands gracefully in a domestic interior gazing out at the viewer with an air of restrained elegance. Deventer, located in the province of Overijssel in the eastern portion of the Netherlands, held tightly to tradition and conservative values, qualities that Gerhard conveys with his somber black attire:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January-15 March 1884, no. 60, as Portrait of a Man