Portrait of Joos de Damhouder, ca. 1628 - 1670

Joos de Damhouder (Bruges, 1511 (?) - Antwerp, 1581) was a Bruges lawyer, alderman of the city and later raadpensionaris. In 1552, he was appointed commissioner of the Council of Finance and tresaurier-general of Emperor Charles V's troops by Mary of Hungary. The Damhouder triptych (1574) is kept in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges. This work is widely regarded as one of the highlights of the painter Pieter Pourbus' work. On both sides of the central panel with the Adoration of the Shepherds, De Damhouder is depicted with his four sons, three of whom were already deceased by then, and Louise de Chantraines, his wife, with their six daughters, three of whom were already deceased by then. The print shows him wearing a beret. The portrait is framed. In the margin are the coat of arms, the name and position of the person portrayed in Latin and a caption in Dutch.