Christiaen Jansz van Bieselingen (1558–1600) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Van Bieselingen was born at

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he died aged 42, having had the honor of painting the only portrait of

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on his deathbed. He spent some time in Madrid at court (where his wife died) before returning to the Netherlands, where he remarried, though he died young, at

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.Christiaen Jansz van Bieselingen Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

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Houbraken claimed that

Hendrik Pot Hendrik Gerritsz Pot (c. 1580 – 15 October 1657 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, who lived and painted in Haarlem, where he was an officer of the militia, or ''schutterij''. Dutch artist Frans Hals painted Pot in militia sash in ...

copied his portrait of the dead stadtholder for the magistrates' room of the

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he painted genre pieces, but few works have survived. He is registered in Delft, Spain, Middelburg, and in the year 1596, in The Hague.Christiaen Jansz van Bieselingen
in the

References

Christiaen Jansz van Bieselingen
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bieselingen, Christiaen Jansz Van 1558 births 1600 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft