The sitter of this signed and dated portrait is George de Marées (1697-1776), a Swedish painter active in Germany. He is depicted at his easel, painting a portrait of Johann Christian Thomas Winck (1738-1797), a court painter in Bavaria.
The portrait may well have been done as a student exercise or as a homage paid by one relatively young artist to two of the leading artistic figures at the Bavarian Court.
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