Jan van de Venne also Van de Vinnen and formally identified as the Dutch

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 or Flemish painter Pseudo van de Venne, was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in "low-life" genre scenes of tooth-pullers, card-players and hurdy-gurdy musicians similar to the themes and styles of his contemporary Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.-Biography:...

. Little is known of his artist's career. He was possibly born before 1600 in Mechelen

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, and spent time in Brussels

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 at the court. His paintings demonstrate harsh caricature

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s in a stronger light than Brouwer, which had a noticeable influence on the Dutch

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 Bamboccianto Andries Both

Andries Both

Andries Both , was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter, one of the bamboccianti, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both.Both was born in Utrecht, the son of a glass painter. He studied under Abraham Bloemaert. According to Joachim von Sandrart Andries and his brother Jan cooperated on the paintings, with Jan...

. Known works include the Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Young Jester (Kunsthistorisches Museum

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, Vienna

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).

Although Jan van de Venne is sometimes identified as the brother (also named Jan) of the Dutch "Golden Age" painter

Dutch Golden Age painting

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 Adriaen van de Venne

Adriaen van de Venne

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne , was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires and a versifier.-Biography:...

, Adriaen's brother died in Middelburg

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in 1625.