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Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733) was an 18th-century painter from the
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Van der Burg was born and died in
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. According to Jan van Gool he was the pupil of
Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...
and accompanied him to Amsterdam where he completed his education before returning to Dordrecht, where he became a popular portrait painter and the teacher of Aert Schouman and Cornelis Greenwood.Adriaan van der Burg Biography
in ''De nieuwe schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1751) by Jan van Gool, courtesy of historici.nl
Schouman made the engraving voor Jan van Gool's book based on a self-portrait that Schouman bought from Adriaan van der Burg's widow. According to the RKD he was the teacher of Aert Schouman and was known for interior decorations.Adriaan van der Burg
in the
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1693 births 1733 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Painters from Dordrecht {{Europe-artist-stub