Portrait of the Family Hinlopen [SEP] creator
Portrait of the Family Hinlopen
The Portrait of the Family Hinlopen or Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier is a painting in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gabriël Metsu of about 1663. There have been various ideas among art historians as to which family is actually represented, with the two main candidates being the families of Jan J. Hinlopen or Gillis Valckenier, both wealthy and powerful figures in Amsterdam at the time.
Provenance.
It is now increasingly accepted that the family are the Hinlopens. In his diary Jan
more than once in a fashionable surrounding.
There is still some confusion about two paintings by Metsu — the Portrait of the family Hinlopen, now in the Gemäldegalerie, which for a few decades was referred to as "The Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier", and "Visit to the Nursery" — in the Metropolitan Museum. There is some general resemblance. The latter belonged to Jan J. Hinlopen. 
Two paintings of the Hinlopen family "Visit to the Nursery".
In 1662 Jan Vos published a poem about this painting