The portrait shows a middle-aged gentleman, unknown today, wearing an all-over wig and a precious purple caffa housecoat with a floral pattern and woolen weft. The fact that he is rubbing the fabric between his fingers to examine it may indicate that he worked in hamburg's textile industry. The production and processing of caffas and other velvet and silk fabrics in hamburg experienced a boom in the 17th and 18th centuries thanks to dutch religious refugees who settled in hamburg at the end of the 16th century and introduced various silk weaving techniques, among other things. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: circa 1750. Place of creation: Hamburg. Dimensions: height: 81 cm (31.8 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Smissen, Domenicus van der - Portrait of a Man - Gemäldegalerie Berlin
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