Cesar Pietersz, or Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1616/17 – buried 13 October 1678), older brother of Allart van Everdingen and Jan van Everdingen, was a

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and history

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Biography

Caesar van Everdingen - Bachus en Ariadne 1660

He was born in

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and educated in

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, where he learned to paint from Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst.Cesar van Everdingen Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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Cesar Boetius van Everdingen
in the RKD Caesar became a member of the painter's guild in

in 1632. His first known painting dates from 1636. In 1648 he moved to Haarlem, where he joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and the civic guard (or ''

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'') there, where he met Jacob van Campen. From 1648 to 1650 He helped him with the decoration of the ''Oranje Zaal'' (Orange room) in

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. In 1658 he moved back to Alkmaar where he started a workshop and took on pupils. He died and was buried in the Grote- or St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar.

Works

Many of his pictures are to be seen in the museums and private houses of the

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, with several on display at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. His pupils were

Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff or Jan Maat, (10 January 1628, Alkmaar – buried 2 October 1669, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter. Biography He was taught by the Alkmaar painter Arent Teerling, and later by Pieter Scheyenburg and ...

, Adriaen Dekker, Hendrik Graauw, and

Thomas Heeremans Thomas Heeremans (1641–1694) was a Dutch painter and art dealer. He is known for his landscapes of winter scenes, cityscapes, harbor scenes, beach views, river views and village scenes. File:Everdingen, Caesar van - Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus - c. 1650.jpg, ''Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus'' File:WollebrantGeleynssendeJongh.jpg, ''Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jongh'' File:Meisje met brede hoed door Caesar van Everdingen.jpg, ''Girl in a Large Hat'' File:Caesar van Everdingen - Joueuse de Cistre.jpg, ''Joueuse de cistre'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France File:Caesar van everdingen-vertumno y pomona-thyssen.jpg, ''Vertumnus and Pomona'',

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, Madrid.

References

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Cesar van Everdingen at Artcyclopedia
* ttp://www.pubhist.com/person/1656/cesar-van-everdingen Works and literatureat PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Everdingen, Caesar Van 1616 births 1678 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters People from Alkmaar Painters from Alkmaar Painters from Haarlem Sibling artists