Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove

The portrayed person is possibly Cornelis Schrevelius (1608–1664), a medical doctor in Haarlem between 1632 and 1641. After 1641 he was dean of the Latin school of Leiden where he succeeded his father. He was the son of Theodorus Schrevelius (1572–1649) dean of the Latin school of Haarlem and later of Leiden who was an acquaintance of Frans Hals and wrote about him in his history of Haarlem (1647/1648). Theodorus was portrayed by Frans Hals in 1617.

There are several portraits of Cornelis known. He was first portrayed in 1624 in a family portrait with his parents, brother and sister. Additional portraits dating from the 1650s and 1660s are known through engravings. In 1661 he was portrayed with his own family by Jacob Torenvliet.

This portrait by Hals was possibly in 1704 still in the possession of his son Theodorus (1639–1704) under the name "Quacksalver". The painting was used around 1685 by an English engraver for a commercial engraving "The mountback doctor and his merry Andrew". Probably the little flattering title gives his own opinion about his former profession while he was a famous Latinist and asked several times for a medical professorship at the University of Leiden which he refused.