Abraham Smit or de Smet (c. 1621 – (buried 30 August 1672)) was a

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painter. He was born to Ariaentje van Eck in

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, around 1621. He moved to

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, where he was active at least from 1649 to 1672. Smit married Trijntje Cornelis (1627 – 1653) in Amsterdam on 2 October 1649. After her death in 1653 he remarried to Anna Lubbers Baey (1622 – 1688), who survived him. His children, Pieter (Smit, de Smit) and Jacobus also became painters. Jacobus worked under commission for

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from 1683 until 1686. He and his sons were

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* Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 680: 153 & 682: 37 * Bredius, A., ''Künstler-Inventare, Urkunden zur Geschichte der holländische Kunst des XVIten, XVIIten und XVIIIten Jahrhunderts'' (8 vols.), Den Haag: Nijhoff (1915-1922)
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* Groenendijk, Pieter, ''Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720'', Leiden: Primavera (2008) * Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 31'', Leipzig: Engelmann (1937) * Scheltema, P., ''Rembrand: Redevoering over het leven en de verdiensten van Rembrand van Rijn, met eene menigte geschiedkundige bijlagen meerendeels uit echte bronnen geput'', Amsterdam: P.N. van Kampen (1853), 71 {{DEFAULTSORT:Smit, Abraham Year of birth uncertain 1621 births 1672 deaths 17th-century Dutch painters People from Lokeren