Samuel van Dirksz Hoogstraten (1627-1678),

was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age, who was also a poet and author on art theory. Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten trained first with his father Dirk van Hoogstraten and stayed in Dordrecht until about 1640. On the death of his father, he moved to Amsterdam where he entered the workshop of Rembrandt. A short time later, he started out on his own as a master and painter of portraits. In a portrait dated 1645, currently in the Lichtenstein collection in Vienna, he imitates Rembrandt.  His pupils were his younger brother Jan van Hoogstraten, Aert de Gelder, Cornelis van der Meulen, and Godfried Schalcken. The displayed painting is a crop from Old man at the Window (1653).