Portrait of a gentleman, seated half length at a draped table, wearing black costume with lace collar and wig - a fragment

The sitter is depicted possibly in his role as chairman of the board of trustees; compare with the group portrait of the trustees of the 'Spinhuis' of 1714 in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (L. de Vries, Diamante Gedenkzuilen en leerzaeme voorbeelden, 1990, p.148, no.63. fig.63)

See illustration