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During the early spring of 1911, leading Dutch Reformed folk in Chicago and Michigan were fighting about a professor. The issue was not, as you might think, unorthodox theology or dangerous ideas. It was who should be the new professor of Dutch history, language, and culture at the University of Chicago.

The debate and the position at Chicago are not of great significance, in and of themselves. The job lasted only two years. It was based on “soft” money (fundraising by the Dutch Reformed community). The University chose not to continue it. And the professor faded into historical obscurity.

But the story offers a window into the Dutch American community in the Midwest in the early 1900s and ongoing relations between Dutch Reformed folk in the U.S. and the Netherlands.

Dutch American pride is the place to start.

In the 1890s, the Dutch American community in Chicago was well off enough to start social clubs and promote ethnic pride. Examples include the Holland Society and the General Dutch League (Algemeen Nederlandisch Verbond). These clubs were modeled on older ones in New York or were part of international organizations of the Dutch in the old world and global diaspora. Other ethnic groups had the same kind of clu

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Portrait of a Man

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Title:Portrait of a Man

Artist:Abraham de Vries (Dutch, The Hague (?) ca. 1590–1649/50 The Hague (?))

Date:1643

Medium:Oil on wood

Dimensions:25 1/4 x 21 in. (64.1 x 53.3 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Credit Line:Purchase, 1871

Object Number:71.63

The peripatetic portraitist Abraham de Vries is a difficult figure to pin down, with regard to both biography and stylistic qualities, as he worked in three countries and in Dutch cities with quite different traditions of portraiture. Though it has been said that he was born in or near Rotterdam, the fact that he paid a reduced entry fee when he joined the painters’ guild of The Hague strongly suggests that he was from that city.

According to the inscription on this engaging portrait, it was painted in The Hague in 1643. The same inscription, De Vries's signature, and the date 1644 are found on the artist's portrait of Hans van Loon (1577–1658) in the Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam.

It was probably the sitter's pose and expression that led A. B. de Vries to wonder whether this painting might be a self-portrait (1951–52; verbal opinion recorded in departmental archives). The features and hairline of the figure in the