HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van
(b. 1627, Dordrecht, d. 1678, Dordrecht)

Self-Portrait

1645
Oil on panel, 54 x 45 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Hoogstraten painted himself at the age of eighteen, when he was an apprentice in Rembrandt's workshop. He wears a gold chain which occurs in several Rembrandt self-portraits and was probably available as a prop in the workshop.