Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (born at

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in 1624, and died in Amsterdam in 1672) was an

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, whose style was influenced by

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. When his father Dirck Rafaelsz Camphuysen died in 1627, his mother moved with the children to Amsterdam. Camphuyzen lived in the

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. In 1643 he painted portraits. He married in 1647 and left the city around 1650, not long after he became a

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. By that time he was living in

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and may have faced financial trouble. He portrayed queen Hedvig Eleonora in Stockholm, but Camphuyzen is most famous for his stables, with farmers and farmers' wives. A painting in the

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of ''Peasants with cows before a cottage'', with a forged signature of Paulus Potter, is attributed to Camphuysen; in the Rotterdam Museum is a picture of ''Peasants before an Inn'', signed G. Camphuijsen; the Brussels Gallery has an 'Interior of a Farm,' signed with his name and dated 1650; and a painting of 'Peasants and Cattle before an Inn' in the Cassel Gallery is also attributed to him. In the Hermitage,

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, are two Interiors of Cow-sheds, both bearing his signature. Govaert Camphuysen's works are scarce; probably some of them are known as paintings by Paulus Potter; and others are attributed to his father, Dirk Raphaelsz. He was buried on 4 July 1672 from his house on

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* 1624 births 1672 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch painters of animals People from Dokkum Painters from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-painter-stub

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