Pieter Nason Portrait of a man Oil on canvas : 75,5 X 59,5 cm Signed and dated bottom left “PNason 1663” In 2004 in Ghent, with Gallery Jan Muller
This unusual, amazingly proud-hearted, somehow disturbing portrait of a very confident man dates from the third quarter of the seventeenth century.
I do not know of any equally intensely painted representation in Flemish, Dutch, French or English Baroque painting.
According to Fred Meijer, the painter could possibly come from Denmark or Germany: a mystery.