![Caesar van Everdingen - Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man (Portrait Historié of the Steyn Family) [1652]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5808/21642861098_e972689697_o.jpg)
Caesar van Everdingen (Alkmaar, 1616/17 - Alkmaar, buried October 13, 1678) was a Dutch portrait and history painter. His first known painting dates from 1636. In 1648 he moved to Haarlem, where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and the civic guard (or schutterij) there. In 1658 he moved back to Alkmaar where he started a workshop and took on pupils. He died and was buried in the Grote or St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar.
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on canvas, 75.9 x 103.6 cm]