Joachim von Sandrart
Making all of those copies only served to arouse more curiosity in the young adventurer, and in 1627 Sandrart booked a passage on a ship from London to Venice, where he was welcomed by Jan Lis (whose Bentvueghels bent name was "Pan"), and Nicolas Régnier.This piece was commissioned by the Bicker Company of the Amsterdam schutterij, and shows the members posing around a bust of Maria of Medici, with a poem by Joost van den Vondel hanging below it.This piece cemented his reputation as a leading painter, and in 1645 Sandrart decided to cash in and go home when he received an inheritance in Stockau, outside Ingolstadt, he sold his things and moved there.He is best known as an author of books on art, some of them in Latin, and especially for his historical work, the Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste,[6] published between 1675 and 1680,[7] and in more recent editions.This work is an educational compilation of short biographies of artists, as "a printed supplement to or surrogate for an academic course,"[8] inspired by Karel van Mander's similar Schilder-boeck.