About this portrait
Abraham David Salomons Clarkson was born in 1811 on Sint Eustatius and died on 4 November 1876 in Bergen op Zoom, aged 65. Noted on the card as a retired rear admiral (schout-bij-nacht: captain-at-sea/colonel rank); elsewhere recorded as second lieutenant-at-sea, probably an earlier career step. The photograph was taken on Sint Eustatius; a studio stamp is absent.
