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Isaak van Nickelen (1632–1703) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Van Nickelen was born and died in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

. According to Houbraken he painted church interiors in the manner of

Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet (1611/1612, Delft – buried October 28, 1675, Delft) was a Dutch Golden Age painter remembered mostly for his church interiors. Biography He studied under his uncle Willem van der Vliet and was admitted to the ...

.Isaak mentioned as father in Jan van Nickelen 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 ...

, courtesy of the

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Houbraken mentioned him in relation to his son, the landscape painter

Jan van Nickelen Jan van Nickelen (1655, Haarlem – 1721, Kassel), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his father Isaak van Nickelen, who taught him perspective and who sent him to school to learn Latin ...

. According to the RKD in 1660 he became master of the

Haarlem Guild of St. Luke The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius. History During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably a ...

and was successful with his paintings of church interiors, but he lived to a great age and went bankrupt near the end of his life in 1698.Isaak van Nickelen
in the

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References

External links

Isaak van Nickelen
on

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