Portrait of a richly dressed young man, half-length

A gifted painter of guardroom interiors, merry companies, still lifes and portraits, Anthonie Palamedesz. may have studied in Delft with the portrait painters Michiel van Mierevelt and Hendrik Pot. While Palamedesz.'s earlier portraits exude a certain sobriety, in his portraits of the late 1650s and 1660s, the artist displays an awareness of the fashionable and sophisticated imagery of Amsterdam portraitists like Bartholomeus van der Helst. With his right hand on his walking stick and left arm akimbo, the sitter here adopts a pose similar to that which is found in paintings like van der Helst's Portrait of an Officer of 1657 (Chequers Trust, Chequers Court, Ellesborough) and his Portrait of Samuel de Marez (1632-1691) of 1661 (private collection).