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He gave this painting in turn to the English Ambassador, who presented it to James I. This was the reason why in 1631, when Lievens was 24, he was invited to the British court. [ 1 ] Houbraken appears to have taken this account directly from Jan Orlers' Beschrijvinge der Stad Leyden (1641) which gives a life of Jan Lievens in pages 375-7 ...
In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.
He travelled back to Naples in 1617 to move his household permanently to Leiden. [1] On 6 January 1618 the artist along with his wife and three surviving children arrived in Leiden. Here van Swanenburg achieved success as a painter and received commissions from local and non-local patrons. [5] He was registered as a master of the young ...
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Man Writing a Letter (1662–1665) (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin). Gabriel Metsu was the son of Jacques Metsu (c. 1588 – March 1629), a tapestry worker and painter originally from Hainault, who lived most of his days at Leiden, [2] and Jacquemijntje Garniers (c. 1590 – 8 September 1651), the widow of a painter with three children of her own.
By 4 September 1655, Van der Burgh had moved to Leiden. He married Cornelia Cornelisdr van Rossum in November 1655. The couple had five children, including a son named Rochus, who also became a painter. In January 1656, the couple rented a house on the Rapenburg canal in Leiden. Although the date he joined is unknown, Van der Burgh was a member ...
Willem van de Velde, known as the Elder, a marine draughtsman and painter, was born in Leiden, the son of a Flemish skipper, Willem Willemsz. van de Velde, and is commonly said to have been bred to the sea. He married Judith Adriaens van Leeuwen in Leiden in 1631.
Kunst was one of the three sons of the painter Cornelis Engebrechtsz who became a painter and glass painter (engraver). His brothers Cornelis Cornelisz Kunst and Lucas Cornelisz de Kock were also painters. He is known for historical allegories, drawings, and glass painting.