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Portrait of Johannes Lutma
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Portrait of Johannes Lutma by Backer, painted anew as a hand-painted oil reproduction that holds the quiet contrast of umber, black, and warm flesh tone.
Description
Description
Warm umber and soft black meet across a ground of muted gold, the collar catching a cooler grey-white light that pulls the eye straight to the face. Little else competes for attention: the coat sits in shadowed browns, the skin tones warm against them, and the whole surface holds together through this quiet negotiation of dark against pale rather than through any variety of hue.
About Portrait of Johannes Lutma
Portrait of Johannes Lutma places its named subject before the viewer with the direct engagement typical of the Backer portraits, the emphasis falling on face and hands so that the presence and inner life of the sitter come forward. The composition is measured and purposeful, the pictorial space organised around the personality of the man rather than around incident or setting, in the manner favoured by Amsterdam portraitists of the period.
The psychological attentiveness here is characteristic of the painter, a quality shared with other artists working in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. Light moves across the planes of the face with a control that creates real immediacy, while the brushwork in the costume areas grows looser, offering a textural contrast that anchors the figure in the picture space without ever drawing focus away from it.
A hand-painted oil painting reproduction of this portrait is built by a trained painter working directly in oil on artist-grade canvas, matching the tonal structure of browns, blacks, and warm flesh colour stroke by stroke rather than reducing it to a flat surface. The brushwork is laid by hand, so the impasto in the collar and the softer passages in the coat keep their physical presence, and the result functions as a genuine replica painting rather than a mechanical copy, an object with depth and surface rather than a printed image of one.
The hand-painted reproduction
Such a portrait suits a reader more than a crowd, a study or a hallway where someone will stand close enough to watch the light settle into the folds of the collar. It carries the quiet gravity of the sitter well into a domestic room, equally at home as a considered gift for someone drawn to the restraint of Dutch portraiture.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, brushed by a trained artist rather than printed
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall or room
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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