Beschrijving
ca. 1875, 44x31cm, plate 22x18cm including margins, large lithograph portrait by Petrus Johannes Arendzen (signature bottem right of portrait) of Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (14 January 1798 – 4 June 1872) who was a Dutch liberal statesman, one of the most important Dutch politicians of the 19th century. In 1848, he headed the commission that drafted the revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands, giving less power to the king and more to the States General, and guaranteeing more religious, personal and political freedom to the people.
