A. D. Rinck. Portraits. Painter, has the honor of informing his friends, and the public in general, that he has opened his painting rooms at no. 6 Place d’Armes in the new buildings of Mme. Pontalba. He will undertake, as formerly, all works of art appertaining to his professions, and will endeavor to merit, by renewed efforts, a continuation of the favor with which his productions have always been received by the people of Louisiana.

Rinck enjoyed a successful and productive career as a portrait artist in New Orleans. In 1859, he purchased a farm in Algiers, Louisiana, and became interested in scientific agriculture. He advocated teaching agriculture at the university level along with the other sciences. He remained in Louisiana, even though he traveled frequently and probably left for duration of the Civil War, returning afterward.

Rinck used a richly woven curtain as the backdrop for his portrait of Josephine DeJan. Her husband, Victor, was a banker who worked for more than thirty years at the Bank of Louisiana. This likeness of Mrs. Victor DeJan was given to the museum by the DeJan family along with three other portraits of family members: Victor DeJan, Josephine and Victor’s son Jean Baptiste DeJan Jr., and a posthumous image of their son Anatole DeJan, painted by another local artist Aimable D. Lansot.