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Sieuwert van der Meulen (1663 – 18 June (buried) 1730) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

He was born in

Alkmaar Alkmaar () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland, about 30 km north of Amsterdam. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination. The ...

, the son of

Catharina Oostfries Catharina Oostfries, or Trijntje Sieuwerts (1636–1708) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter. Biography Oostfries was born in Nieuwkoop. According to Houbraken she kept up her drawing and glass painting into her seventies.

and

Claes van der Meulen Claes Pietersz van der Meulen or Klaas Pietersz. van der Meule (1642–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter. Biography Van der Meulen was born in Alkmaar. According to Houbraken he was an industrious painter who married Catharina Oostfr ...

and became a member of the Alkmaar

Guild of St. Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...

in 1700.Parentage of Pieter Claesz
on genealogy website of Alkmaar He designed and etched prints, for example a series of 16 etchings titled ''Navigiorum Aedificatio'', on the history of a ship. This was published by

Peter Schenk the Elder Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – between 12 August and 17 November 1711 in Leipzig) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig.Sieuwert van der Meulen
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He also worked in Haarlem, but died in his home town of Alkmaar.

References

Navigiorum Aedificatio
online at Maritiem Digitaal
Sieuwert van der Meulen
on

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