Johannes Vollevens II (1685, in

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– 1759, in The Hague), was an 18th-century portrait painter from the

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Biography

According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his father,

Johannes Vollevens Johannes Vollevens (1649, Geertruidenberg – 1728, The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was born in 1654, "the same year that took Fabritius by a stroke of fate",Houbraken made several puns on th ...

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in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature According to the RKD, in 1713 he became a member, and in 1748, he became deacon of the

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.Johannes Vollevens
in the

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His selfportrait from 1754 is still in their collection (today the

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KABK). His pupils were Arent Schaasberg and

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References

1710 painting by Johannes Vollevens II
on

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