Anthony Vreem (1660,

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– 1681,

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painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a promising young painter who learned from

Godfried Schalcken Godfried Schalcken (8 October 1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly ...

in the period that Schalcken was studying at the Latin school where Vreem's father was rector. He died young, still a student, and was mourned in the traditional way of young men in Dordrecht at the time, with laurels on his coffin and laurels worn by the coffin bearers. A sad poem was written in his death notice that Houbraken republished.Anthony Vreem 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 According to the RKD he was a pupil of Godfried Schalcken and the only paintings known by him are copies after older masters.Anthony Vreem
in the

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vreem, Anthony 1660 births 1681 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Dordrecht