Klaes Molenaer - Winter Landscape with Skaters - WGA16111

Nicolaes (Klaes) Molenaer (1626-1629 in

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– 1676 in Haarlem) was a

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Biography

Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem in the family of tailor Jan Mienssen Molenaer and his second wife Grietgen Adriaens: they would get 8 children of whom no birthdates are known, as the family was Roman Catholic and no baptismal register was kept. According to the

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among his brothers there were the painters

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Jan Miense Molenaer Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668), was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting. He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre p ...

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He became a member of the

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in 1651 and paid dues yearly until 1676. He was a winter landscape painter influenced by

Jacob van Ruisdael Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (; 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural ach ...

References

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(Edit.): '' General Dictionary of Artists from Antiquity to the Present'', Band 25: ''Moehring–Olivié''. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 32 (as: Molenaer, Klaes (Nicolaes)) 1630 births 1676 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Haarlem Painters from Haarlem {{Netherlands-painter-stub