Quirijn or Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam (1622/29,

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– 1669/79,

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),entry
in the

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was a

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painter. He probably studied under

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, and as a result his paintings from the 1640s and 1650s are similar to those of the

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References

* Elizabeth Alice Honig, "Brekelenkam, Quiringh uirijn(Gerritsz.) van," in Jane Shoaf Turner (ed.), ''From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17th-Century Dutch Artists'', The Grove dictionary of art. New York: St. Martin's Press (2000): 59–60.

External links

Works and literature on Quirijn van BrekelenkamVermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Quirijn van Brekelenkam 1620s births 1670s deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch genre painters People from Alphen aan den Rijn {{netherlands-painter-stub