Jan Micker - Bird's Eye View of Amsterdam (ca

Jan Christiaensz Micker (1598 in

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– 1664 in

), was a

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landscape painter.

Biography

Houbraken mentioned him as a "gemeen schilder" who was the first drawing teacher of

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.Jan Micker, "een gemeen Schilder" in Jan Baptista Weeninx Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD besides being the first teacher of Jan Baptist Weenix he painted staffage in paintings by Jan Fransz Dammeroen, Hans Jurriaensz van Baden and

Joachim Govertsz Camphuysen Joachim Govertsz Camphuysen (1601, Gorinchem – 1659, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to the RKD he was the son of a surgeon and the nephew of the painter Dirk Rafaelsz Camphuysen.

.Jan Christiaensz. Micker
in the RKD In 1653 he lived on the Prinsengracht across from the Noorderkerk in the house called 't Wapen van Amsterdam. When he died he lived on the

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, and was buried in the Noorderkerk.

References

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