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1589 Delft, Holland - 1662 The Hague, Holland. Known for: Allegory, genre and portrait painting, book illustration, satire.
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age* painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and... Read full biography
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), 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. Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he... Read full biography
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), 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. Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.* He then moved... Read full biography
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), 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. Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.* He then moved to Middelburg in 1614 where he was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His political painting Fishers of Men, 1614, is an ironic commentary on the Catholic and Protestant troubles of the Eighty Years War that split the... Read full biography
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), 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. Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.* He then moved to Middelburg in 1614 where he was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His political painting Fishers of Men, 1614, is an ironic commentary on the Catholic and Protestant troubles of the Eighty Years War that split the border between the Northern from the Southern Netherlands along the Schelde river, very close to his home in Middleburg. When he... Read full biography
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Adriaen Pietersz, Adriaen Van De Venne
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Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), 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.
Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.* He then moved to Middelburg in 1614 where he was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
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