Portrait of a Man from the Weinsberg Family

Barthel Bruyn’s oeuvre focused on religious painting and portraiture, and he was particularly renowned in his own time for his work in the latter genre. He was also the founding figure of a school of portraiture in Cologne, a city that had not previously been particularly active in this field. Bruyn depicted his sitters in a realistic manner, initially influenced by Netherlandish models, particula…