Portrait of Jan de Hooghe (1650-1731), brother of Anna de Hooghe, dressed for hunting

Bakhuizen's Portrait of Jan de Hooghe (1650–1731), brother of his wife Anna and dressed for hunting, from 1706, connects the marine painter to the family of the satirist Romeyn de Hooghe. Jan is depicted in hunting attire, a costume that in Dutch portraiture signified aristocratic pretension and leisure rather than working-class rural life. The Hooghe family moved in the upper circles of Amsterdam society, and the hunting portrait was a genre that allowed prosperous Dutch merchants and professionals to claim the visual language of noble outdoor pursuits.

The hunting costume — hat, riding coat, and probably a gun or game — gives the portrait more compositional variety than the standard three-quarter bust format. Bakhuizen renders the outdoor setting and informal dress with the same direct observation he brought to his marine compositions.