Jan Linsen (
Hoorn
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, 1602 or 1603 – Hoorn, May 26, 1635) was a Dutch painter of mythological and historical themes.
Jan Linsen travelled in
France
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and
Italy
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on a
Grand Tour, and in
Rome
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he became a member of the painters' circle known as the
Bentvueghels
The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique").
Activities
The members, which incl ...
, with the nickname ''Hermafrodito''. While on a ship bound homewards from the
Papal States
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, he was captured by Moorish pirates. He was ransomed for 20 pieces of silver, which was paid by his company. He later painted a scene of this encounter that still hung in Hoorn when
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 ...
was writing. He died young, according to Houbraken, due to an argument in a bar, where he was stabbed to death by a man whom he claimed to have loved and forgave before he died of the wound.
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