Gerrit Pietersz by Hendrick Hondius and Simon Frisius p65

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink (1566–1612) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Sweelink was born and died in

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Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembere ...

he was first taught to paint by Jacob Lenartsz, a glasspainter of Amsterdam whose father was a seaman from

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He was such a good student that he was recommended to the painter

Cornelis van Haarlem Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. Biograph ...

by Jacob Rauwaert. He was the brother of the ''Orpheus of Amsterdam'', the organist

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( ; April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard compo ...

, whose portrait he later painted. He lived in Antwerp many years and was in Rome for even longer. When Van Mander was writing Sweelink was living back in Amsterdam and still painting. Sweelink had taught a few good students, including a painter named "Govert" in Amsterdam, and

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in Italy. According to the RKD he is known for portraits and mythological and religious pieces.Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink
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RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He possibly died in 1612, since the engraved portrait of him in the engraving by

Simon Frisius Simon de Vries or Simon Frisius (1570–75 in Harlingen – 1628–29 in The Hague),Simon Frisius
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Hendrik Hondius I Hendrik Hondius I (born Hendrik de Hondt; 9 June 1573 – ) was a Flemish-born and trained engraver, cartographer, and publisher who settled in the Dutch Republic in 1597. Life He was born as the son of Guillam (Willem) de Hondt, a philo ...

refers to him in the past tense.

References

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