BRUYN, Barthel the Elder
(b. 1493, Cologne, d. 1555, Cologne)

Burgomaster Arnold von Brauweiler

1535
Oil on oak, 57 x 38,5 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

With Barthel (Bartholomäus) Bruyn the Elder portraiture were introduced to Cologne and it became a major new artistic genre.