Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland was Vincent van Gogh's favorite model during his Hague period.

He appears in dozens of drawings, easily identified by his bald head and prominent white whiskers, and he was the model for the drawing which was the basis for van Gogh's later iconic painting At Eternity's Gate.

1810 and fought in the Ten days' campaign in 1831 against the Belgian secessionists and French troops supporting them, where he received nl:Metalen Kruis 1830-1831 award, which he usually wears on his portraits.

[Letters 2] The "Old Men's Home" was the Nederlands Hervormd Oude-mannen-en-vrouwenhuis in the Om en Bij, The Hague,[6] and Zuyderland was subsequently identified by W. J.

A. Visser in their records from the identification tab 399 on his right arm that can be made out in Orphan Man with Top Hat, and which also appears in a letter sketch (left).