Man Weighing Gold, ca. 1515?20, Oil on wood, 20 x 12 in. (50. 8 x 30. 5 cm), with added strips of 1 3/4 in. (4. 5 cm) at left and right, Paintings, Adriaen Isenbrant (Netherlandish, active by 1510?died 1551 Bruges), This portrait is among the first to depict a professional activity. Weighing gold coins while dressed in expensive fur, the sitter may have been one of the many merchants in Bruges who handled commodities, a money changer, or a banker, like Tommaso Portinari