Portret van Gijsbrecht van Bronckhorst en Batenburg

The subject is shown at bust-length in an oval frame, wearing a high pleated ruff and a patterned doublet. He is turned slightly to the left, looking directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. The engraver's monogram 'HG' is visible on the right side of the background.

Hendrick Goltzius was the leading figure of the Haarlem Mannerists, a circle deeply influenced by Neoplatonic theories of art and the 'hand of the artist' as a divine instrument. While the sitter was a political figure executed during the Dutch Revolt, Goltzius's portraits from this period capture the humanist intellectual environment of the late 16th-century Netherlands.