Joachim von Sandrart (1606 – 1688)

• Was a German Baroque art-historian and painter.
• He was active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age.
• He wrote collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the Teutsche Academie, published between 1675 and 1680.
• He received 3000 guilders for 2 books of his Italian drawings, that according to Houbraken were resold in his lifetime for 4555 guilders.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Karel Škréta, Portrait of a Miniature Painter (Joachim Sandrart), before 1640.
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