POT, Hendrick Gerritsz
(b. ca. 1580, Haarlem, d. 1657, Amsterdam)

The Miser

1640s
Oil on wood, 36 x 32,7
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The initials "HP." with which the painting is signed for a long time deceived critics into thinking its author was Horatius Paulyn. At the beginning of the twentieth century the painting's attribution was changed in favour of Pot.