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Adriana Spilberg (1652–1700) was a

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painter active at the court of

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine John William, Elector Palatine (''Jan Wellem'' in Low German, English: ''John William''; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Neuburg (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Ber ...

.(German
court painters
who worked at the court of Johan Wilhelm, according to the Dusseldorf museum website and

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Biography

She was born in

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. According to Houbraken her father

Johannes Spilberg Johannes Spilberg (30 April 1619 – 10 August 1690) was a German Baroque painter, active in Amsterdam during the period known as the Dutch Golden Age. Life Spilberg was born and died in Düsseldorf.Adriana Spilberg Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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 ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Spilberg kept her in Amsterdam while he was working for Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. When his patron married Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, she asked Spilberg to bring his family, including his famous daughter, to court, which he did, and Adriana became court painter for the archduchess in 1681 in Düsseldorf. Adriana married the painter Wilhelm Breekvelt there and had three sons by him, but he died in 1684. In 1689 her patroness died and Johann Wilhelm remarried

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. In 1690 her father died, and he was replaced as court painter by

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, whom she married after 11 years of widowhood in 1697. According to the RKD she was the pupil and dochter of Johannes Spilberg, wife of Willem Breekvelt after 1687, and after 1697 the wife of Eglon van der Neer.Adriana Spilberg
in the

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She died in 1700 in

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References

External links

Adrianne van der Neer
at

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1652 births 1700 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Painters from Amsterdam Dutch women painters 17th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub