As mentioned in the Amsterdam catalogue Buys also painted a portrait of the actor, and he left a mezzotint of the same unfinished (F. Muller no.4092 B). The scene shown is the fourth scene in the fourth act of P.C. Hooft's Warenar. The hero has buried a pot with money in the graveyard, and Lecker has seen him: 'Jij schelm/wat doe je op die muur? de kop sel ik je breken', and after a discussion Warenar says 'Daar laet ik de Pot niet/ich gae en graef hem weer op.'. Lecker than secretly looks on while Warenar digs up the pot.
Anthony Spatsier born in 1721 in Amsterdam, was a shoemaker but also a poet and actor, most appreciated in comedies. After the fire in the Amsterdam Opera of 1772 he lost his post and became a verger, although later he acted in Rotterdam