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Swiss Baroque painter
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Male
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Birth:
1591
Death:
1648(Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Samuel Hoffmann (1591, Zürich – 1648, Frankfurt), was a Baroque painter from Zurich.
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.
According to the RKD he was in Amsterdam from1614-1622.