Person depicted Jacques Reule (1879-1954)
Role Horace Vale in De politierechter (A.W. Pinero)
Artist Han van Meegeren (1889-1947)
Medium Olieverf op doek
Year 1927
 

The painter Han van Meegeren is known to many. He was a master forger of Vermeers and achieved great fame with this. Van Meegeren made three portraits for the theater in an early period, including the stately portrait of Jacques Reule. The actor made his debut in 1907 at the Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsche Tooneel and continued to perform here for almost twenty years, particularly in the roles of young leading man and as the lover of characters by Theo Bouwmeester. In 1927 he was immortalized as Horace Vale in The Police Magistrate (Pinero).