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Portrait of a Man, possibly Jan de Hooghe (1608-1682), 1658. According to an eighteenth or nineteenth-century label on the back of this painting, the sitter is Jan de Hooghe It is known that he was married to Anna van der Does. If this is indeed Anna’s husband, he would have been roughly 50 years old when Hennekyn immortalized him. He was then active as a merchant in Amsterdam. The portrayed man may look a bit young for someone of his age, but Hennekyn could have painted his likeness in 1658 after an original that was made far earlier.