Claim: Portrait painter Samuel Hoffmann traveled to his hometown Zurich, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam doing his paintings.
Evidence: Samuel Hoffmann (1591, Zürich – 1648, Frankfurt), was a Baroque painter from Zurich. He then travelled with his wife to his native Zurich where he was successful as a portrait painter. According to Houbraken he travelled to Antwerp to learn painting in the studio of Rubens, and set up a workshop in Amsterdam, where he married in 1628. He painted for the Duke of Milan (possibly Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy), and then travelled to Frankfurt where he painted a large piece for the city hall there, but he died of podagra (gout) in 1640.