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During the five years that Van Hoogstraten spent in England, he not only amassed fame, but also fortune. Upon returning to the Netherlands, he successively purchased obligations to the value of five thousand, four thousand and thousand pounds. In January 1668, he was enrolled in the Confrèrie Pictura in The Hague.¹ He received important commissions, such as eight large portraits of the family of Maarten Pauw (1616-1680), receiver general of Holland and West Friesland, and his wife Elisabeth van der Meer (1626-1708). Pauw also bought two genre pieces, including Interior with a sick young woman and a doctor.² Like the time that Van Hoogstraten had spent in England, this was a period without pupils and one in which he did not produce any prints.