Roelof Koets, or Coets (1655–1725), was an 18th-century painter from the

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Biography

He was born in Zwolle as the son of Andries Koets and is known as a portrait painter and the teacher of the miniature painter Herman Wolters, the husband of

Henriëtta van Pee Henriëtta van Pee (1692, Amsterdam – 1741, Haarlem), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic. Biography According to the RKD she was the granddaughter of Jan van Pee and the daughter of Theodor van Pee. She married the painte ...

.Roelof Koets (II)
in the

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According to his biographer

Johan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.

, he had been a pupil of

Gerard ter Borch Gerard ter Borch (; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (), was a Dutch Golden Age painter mainly of genre subjects. He influenced his fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johan ...

and painted upwards of 5000 portraits of various gentry in Friesland and Overijssel, including portraits of the family of Hendrik Casimir.Biography of Roelof Koets in Johan van Gool's "De nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen" Though sometimes still life paintings are attributed to him, most of these are by an earlier

Roelof Koets Roelof Koets (1592, Haarlem – 1654, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Koets became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1654 as a ''vinder''.De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798, Hesse ...

, who could possibly have been his descendant. He died in Zwolle.

References

Roelof Koets the younger
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1655 births 1725 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Artists from Zwolle {{Netherlands-painter-stub