Adriaen de Weerdt
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Adriaan de Weerdt (c. 1510 in
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
– c. 1590 in
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) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver.


Biography

According to Karel van Mander he travelled to Antwerp to learn to paint from Christian van den Queborn (whose son
Daniel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
became a court painter in The Hague).