Gerrit Pietersz by Hendrick Hondius and Simon Frisius p65

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink (1566–1612) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Sweelink was born and died in

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. According to

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander IKarel van Mander
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History ...

he was first taught to paint by Jacob Lenartsz, a glasspainter of Amsterdam whose father was a seaman from

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.Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink
in

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander IKarel van Mander
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History ...

's ''

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into En ...

'', 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He was such a good student that he was recommended to the painter

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by Jacob Rauwaert. He was the brother of the ''Orpheus of Amsterdam'', the organist

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( ; April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard comp ...

, whose portrait he later painted. He lived in Antwerp many years and was in Rome for even longer. When Van Mander was writing Sweelink was living back in Amsterdam and still painting. Sweelink had taught a few good students, including a painter named "Govert" in Amsterdam, and

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in Italy. According to the RKD he is known for portraits and mythological and religious pieces.Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink
in the

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He possibly died in 1612, since the engraved portrait of him in the engraving by

Simon Frisius Simon de Vries, also known as Simon Frisius (born c. 1570–75, in Harlingen, Netherlands, Harlingen – died c. 1628–29, The Hague),Hendrik Hondius I Hendrik Hondius I (born Hendrik de Hondt; 9 June 1573 – ) was a Flemish-born and trained engraver, cartographer, and publisher who settled in the Dutch Republic in 1597. Life He was born as the son of Guillam (Willem) de Hondt, a philologis ...

refers to him in the past tense.

References

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