Pieter van der Werff, Portrait of Marinus Groeninx (1655-1730), director of the VOC between 1698 and 1730, portrait painting visual material linen oil paint, Oval portrait of man representing Marinus Groeninx as VOC administrator married to Catharina de Neyn Half-legged to the right. Gray allonge wig. Lace collar with jabot red drapery trimmed with gold brocade. In VOC list Front of cloth right center: P: vd Werff ft ANNO 1708 (black paint) Dutch East India Company VOC Rotterdam director Kralingen Originally the portrait was hung in the auction room of the East Indian House on the Boompjes. After the dissolution of the VOC in 1795 returned to the family of the depicted..