Samuel Hoffmann

Samuel Hoffmann (1591, Zürich – 1648, Frankfurt), was a Baroque painter from Zurich.

Not to be confused with the thereminist Samuel Hoffman.
Katharina von Mülinen (1597 -1620), painted by Hoffman in 1617.

Biography

According to Houbraken he travelled to Antwerp to learn painting in the studio of Rubens, and set up a workshop in Amsterdam, where he married in 1628. He then travelled with his wife to his native Zurich where he was successful as a portrait painter. He painted for the Duke of Milan (possibly Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy), and then travelled to Frankfurt where he painted a large piece for the city hall there, but he died of podagra (gout) in 1640. His wife and daughter (who was a painter) returned to Amsterdam.[1]

According to the RKD he was in Amsterdam from 1614-1622.[2]

Notes
  1. (in Dutch) Samuel Hoffmann Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. Samuel Hoffmann in the RKD

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