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Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the
in the
Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...
– 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories byIgnatius Walvis
Ignatius Walvis (1653, Utrecht – 1714, Gouda), was an 18th-century priest, historian, and writer from the Netherlands.
Biography
He was the son of the painter Johan Baptist Walvis who moved from Antwerp to Utrecht in the year of his birt ...
, he was an excellent flower painter born in Leiden, but his parentage was from Gouda.Adriaan vander Speltin ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the
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He spent many years at the court of Brandenburg working for Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg
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, but moved to Gouda to ''marry a third time with a nasty wife from Groningen who drove him to his grave''.
According to the RKD he was a flower painter who spent the years 1664-1670 at the court of Brandenburg.Adriaen van der Speltin the
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References
* Walvis, Ignatius in: ''Beschryving der stad Gouda'', 1713, Gouda; facsimile edition 1972, {{DEFAULTSORT:Spelt, Adriaen van der 1630 births 1673 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Leiden People from Gouda, South Holland Artists from South Holland Court painters Dutch flower artists