Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck (1610–1654) was a

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painter.

Biography

Verbeeck was born and died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken, he taught (horse) painting to

Gillis Schagen Gillis Schagen (1616, Alkmaar – 1668, Alkmaar), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken, he was the son of Pieter Jansz Schagen, an important councilman of Alkmaar, who was taught to paint first by Salomon van Rave ...

, the son of an important councilman of

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.Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD in 1635 he moved to Alkmaar where he married and became a member of the

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there. In 1638 he moved to Utrecht, but after his wife died in 1642 he returned to Haarlem, where he married Elisabeth van Beresteyn, the sister of his friend Claes van Beresteyn, in 1643 and where he became a member of the

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in 1645. He painted still life, landscapes and portraits.Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck
in the

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References

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* 1610 births 1654 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Alkmaar Painters from Haarlem {{Netherlands-bio-stub