), 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...

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Biography

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Cornelis van Poelenburch who was born in Zaltbommel and travelled to Italy as a young man. When he returned he setup a workshop in Zaltbommel, where he taught the painter Gerard Hoet

Gerard Hoet

-Biography:Gerard Hoet trained with his father and brother who were glass painters, and Warnard van Rijsen, who lived in Zaltbommel, and who himself was a pupil of Cornelis van Poelenburgh in Utrecht. In 1672 Hoet moved to The Hague, but when the Count of Salis bought paintings at his mother's...

. Houbraken, who received his information from Hoet himself, claimed he had been Hoet's teacher in Zaltbommel for a year before he moved to smaller quarters where he could no longer receive pupils at his home. In his biography of Van Poelenburch, Houbraken claimed that after teaching Hoet, he became a jeweller who travelled to Spain, where he later died.

According to the RKD he was in Zaltbommel from 1664-1665, though it is possible that he lived there in smaller quarters for some time longer before moving to Spain.