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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 ...
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.
Aertgen Claesz. van Leyden (c. 1498 – c. 1564), also known as Allaert or Aert van Leyden or Aert Claesz. van Leyden, was a 16th-Century Dutch painter, draughtsman and designer of stained glass. Works by this artist can be found at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...
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.
Nicolaes van Gelder or Claes Gelder (1636 – 1676) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was born in Leiden and became a pupil of Pieter de Ring. [1] He is known for still life paintings. Gelder worked in Stockholm in 1661 and Copenhagen in 1673 (where his daughter was born) but died in Amsterdam. His wife was mentioned in Amsterdam in 1677 as a ...