Adriaen Thomasz Key
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Biography
Little is known of his life. According to the RijksmuseumRijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or simply Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art...
, he was a pupil of his (distant) relative Willem Key
Willem Key
Willem Key was a Flemish renaissance painter.-Biography:According to van Mander he learned painting together with Frans Floris from Lambert Lombardus in Liège. He became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1540. He was a rich man who lived in a large house in the center of town near...
. According to the RKD he became a vrijmeester, or master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1568.