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Willem Frederiksz van Royen ( 1645 – 1723) was a
in the RKD He became a still life and flower painter who moved to Berlin in 1669 and became court painter to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg after van Royen's predecessor, the flower painter
Willem Frederiksz van Royen ( 1645 – 1723) was a Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
painter.
Biography
According to the RKD, he was likely born inHaarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
and became a pupil of Arnold van Ravesteyn
Arnold van Ravesteyn (1605 in The Hague – 1690 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a pupil of his father, the painter Anthonie van Ravesteyn, who became a member of the Haarlem Guild o ...
either there or in The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
during the years 1661-1668.Willem Frederiksz. van Royenin the RKD He became a still life and flower painter who moved to Berlin in 1669 and became court painter to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg after van Royen's predecessor, the flower painter
Adriaen van der Spelt
Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden – 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories by Ignatius Walvis, he was an excellent flower painter born in ...
returned to the Netherlands. After a period in Potsdam in 1689, he became one of the founders of the Berlin academy in 1695, where he later died.
Van Royen was also active in Amsterdam and made paintings in the dollhouse of Petronella de la Court
Petronella de la Court (born 24 August 1624 in Leiden, South Holland - died 22 March 1707 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch art collector.
De la Court married her cousin, the silk merchant Adam Oortmans, on 24-8-1649 in Leiden, and they had 10 children t ...
(on display in the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
), together with his contemporaries Nicolaas Piemont and Johannes Voorhout
Johannes Voorhout (11 November 1647 – 25 August 1717) was a Dutch painter of history paintings, portraits and genre scenes.Willem van Royen, who mostly painted birds.
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1640s births
1723 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Haarlem
Court painters
Dutch flower artists
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