Jan Ariens Duif (about 1617 in
Gouda – 1649 in Gouda) was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the '' Rampjaar'' occurred. During this period, Dutch trade, scientific development ...
painter.
Biography
He was taken to the Gouda orphanage at age nine, where his drawing talent was discovered and ten years later he painted the regents with himself next to the resident ''father''. He was a student of his uncle,
Wouter Crabeth II. He married in 1647 but died only two years later. His religious paintings hang in the Gouda Lutheran church and in the
Catherina Gasthuis, a museum in Gouda.
According to Houbraken, he died of a sudden illness, along with two colleagues; Jan Govertsz Verbyl and
Aert van Waes
Aert van Waes, or Aert de Waes ( in Gouda – ), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
He was a student of Wouter Crabeth II, Reinier van Persijn and David Teniers the Younger, and though he lived and worked in Gouda, ...
(who had just returned from Italy). The RKD disagrees, and estimates the death of Van Waes between the years 1664–1684.
Aert van Waes
in the RKD
File:Regenten weeshuis Gouda 1636 door Jan Adriaensz Duif.jpg, Regents of the orphanage of Gouda painted in 1636 by Jan Duif
File:Gregorius Simpernel (overleden) door Jan Ariens Duif.jpg, after his death painted by Jan Ariens Duif.
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Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
1610s births
1649 deaths
Artists from Gouda, South Holland
Painters from South Holland