Samuel van Dirksz Hoogstraten (1627-1678)

• Was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age.
• He was also a poet and author on art theory.
• Hoogstraten trained first with his father Dirk van Hoogstraten.
• He 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.
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