Martinus Lengele (1615–1668) was a
Dutch Golden Age painter.
He is known for portraits in
the Hague
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, and made a few
schutterstuken there. He became a member of the
Confrerie Pictura
The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.
History
The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...
in The Hague from 1656 to 1665.
Martinus Lengele
in Bénézit
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In 1642 his sister Anna married the painter Jacob van Loo, who like him, worked in Paris in the 1660s.
Lengele died in Paris
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.
References
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1615 births
1668 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters