Samuel Hoffmann
Swiss Baroque painter
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| Intro | Swiss Baroque painter | ||
| Places | Switzerland | ||
| was | Painter | ||
| Work field | Arts | ||
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| Birth | 1591 | ||
| Death | 1648Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany (aged 57 years) | ||
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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 from 1614-1622.