Junger Mann mit Fellkappe

Young Man in a Fur Cap

Although there are no documented portraits of Fabritius, this is generally accepted as a self portrait. The artist did not have any direct military connections. He has painted himself in military dress, just as his teacher Rembrandt had done in his portraits of the 1630s. The picture was painted in the year Fabritius died prematurely in a vast gunpowder explosion in Delft.