This portrait is admirable for the loose brushwork used to depict the gold brocade of his jacket. Research has revealed that it was painted alla prima or wet-in-wet.Exhibition catalog, Frans Hals: Eye to eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian, Frans Hals Museum, 2013 Measuring only 31.5 × 26.6 inches, this portrait could have easily been completed while Schade was on a day trip to Haarlem, taking it with him, still wet. The painting was documented by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in 1910 who wrote:
