Abraham Staphorst, or Staphortius (ca. 1638,
Edam – 1696,
Dordrecht
Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...
), was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a good portrait painter and the son of Johannes Staphortius, a well known preacher of Dordrecht, whose portrait he often sketched with chalk or charcoal on the walls of the taverns he visited with the remark, "Do you want to see my father?".
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