About Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink
Lived 1566 – 1612 (aged 45–46). Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink was a Dutch painter, draftsperson, etcher and stained-glass artist.
Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink (1566–1612) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography Sweelink was born and died in Amsterdam. According to Karel van Mander he was first taught to paint by Jacob Lenartsz, a glasspainter of Amsterdam whose father was a seaman from Zandvoort. He was such a good student that he was recommended to the painter Cornelis van Haarlem by Jacob Rauwaert. He possibly died in 1612, since the engraved portrait of him in the engraving by Simon Frisius for Hendrik Hondius I refers to him in the past tense.
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Dutch Golden Age painter (1566-1612)
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Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink was born on 1 November 1566 in Amsterdam.
When did Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink die?
Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink died in 1612 in Amsterdam.
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Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink was a painter, draftsperson, etcher and stained-glass artist.
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Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink was Dutch.
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