Portrait of Paulus Verschuur; Served seven terms as Burgomaster of Rotterdam and also Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the East India Company; elected 1651; Portrait of Paulus Verschuur (1606-67); chosen in 1651. Koopman and several times mayor of Rotterdam. Bust in oval to the right. Free copy after the portrait of Frans Hals from 1643 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York. Part of a series of portraits of the governors of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company; made for the New East Indian House from 1698 at the Boompjes in Rotterdam.; Rotterdam; Dutch East India Company; Paulus Verschuur; Pieter van der Werff; 1695 - 1722; canvas; oil paint (paint); h 82 cm x w 68 cm