Willem van Drielenburg (1632,
Utrecht (city)
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– c. 1687,
Dordrecht
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), was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a pupil of
Abraham Bloemaert
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who later took to landscape painting in the manner of
Jan Both
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Biography
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