is shown seated at a table, with a prostitute. There is another painting of him in the Ashmolean Museum by Godfrey Kneller. An engraving of 1686 by Isaac Beckett, after a design by Simon du Bois shows Beverland, (in a parody of a respectable 1670 frontispiece by Abraham Blotelingh of Lorenzo Pignoria), amongst Egyptian antiquities, sketching a female nude. References Sources Karen E. Hollewand, 2017, 'The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries', in: Early Modern Low Countries, 1(2), pp. 273–296. Karen E. Hollewand, The Banishment of Beverland. Sex, Sin, and Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, volume: 298. Brill Leiden 2019. Karen E. Hollewand, (2018, April 12). Beverland, Hadriaan (1650–1716), humanist scholar. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Rudolf de Smet, Hadrianus Beverlandus (1650-1716). Non unus e multis peccator. Studie over het leven en werk van Hadriaan Beverland. Brussel: Paleis der Academiën 1988 (187 pp.). Joyce Zelen, 'The Self-Promotion of a Libertine Bad Boy: Hadriaan Beverland's Portrait with a Prostitute in the Rijksmuseum', in: The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, volume 66, no. 4 (2018), pp. 362–385. 1650 births 1716 deaths People from Middelburg, Zeeland 17th-century Dutch philosophers