Attributed to Enoch Seeman

Datable to the 1720s, this portrait of a young artist and his companion has recently been identified as a work by Enoch Seeman depicting the artist and his brother Isaac, also a painter. The likeness of the figure turned towards the viewer accords well with a now-lost three-quarter-length self-portrait engraved by John Faber Jr in 1727.¹ Moreover, a comparable portrayal of the artist and his brother is recorded with Philip Mould, London.²

¹ See, for example, the impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London; https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw81740/Enoch-Seeman

² Oil on canvas; 127 x 101.2 cm.; https://philipmould.com/artworks/categories/19/367-enoch-seeman-self-portrait-with-the-painters-brother-isaac-d.1751/?open_enquiry_form=true