Dirck van HoogstratenThe painter Dirck van Hoogstraten (1596 1640), who trained as a silversmith, has always stood in the shadow of his famous son Samuel (1627 1678), a pupil of Rembrandt and author of an important treatise on the art of painting. This monograph puts Dirck van Hoogstraten in the spotlight for the first time. There was already some information about Dircks life thanks to the biography Arnold Houbraken wrote in the eighteenth century. However, it was only