Abraham Furnerius
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Abraham Furnerius was a Dutch Golden Age
Dutch Golden Age
The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 draughtsman and painter, who was a pupil of Rembrandt.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a Rembrandt pupil at the same time as Samuel van Hoogstraten, Philip de Koninck
Philip de Koninck
Philip de Koninck, or Philips Koninck was a Dutch landscape painter and younger brother of Jacob Koninck....

 and Govert Flinck
Govert Flinck
Govert Teuniszoon Flinck was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age.-Life:Born at Kleve, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszoon, a Mennonite, better known...

. Though he died young, he established a workshop and became the teacher of Gerrit Battem
Gerrit Battem
Gerrit Battem or Gerard van Battum was a superior Dutch landscape painter.-Biography:Houbraken mentions drawings by Battem in the house of his patron Jonas van Witsen of Amsterdam, who bought them for 1300 guilders along with colored drawings by Adriaen van Ostade in the 1670'sAccording to the...

. He was the brother in law of Philip de Koninck, whose works are sometimes confused with his.
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