Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw (11 January 1624 – 20 December 1680]) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. According to Houbraken he was the father of

Govert van der Leeuw Gabriel, or Govert van der Leeuw (1645–1688), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography He was the brother of Pieter van der Leeuw, and they learned to paint from their father, the painter Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, who had bee ...

.Bastiaan Govertz vander Leeuw in his son Govert's Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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He was born at

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where he became a pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp. He did well as a painter of live animals such as cows and sheep, but he gave up painting and he became a collector of the excise duties on beer, living at Dordrecht till his death. According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp in 1638 and became the father of the artists Govert and Pieter van der Leeuw.Bastiaan Govertsz. van der Leeuw
in the

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He died, aged 56, in his home city of Dordrecht.

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1624 births 1680 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Dordrecht {{Netherlands-painter-stub