About Willem Tomberg
Lived 1670 – 1712 (aged 41–42). Willem Tomberg was a Dutch painter and writer.
Willem Tomberg (1670–1712) was an 18th-century writer and stained glass painter.
Biography He was born in Gouda. According to Houbraken he was the son of Daniel who informed him that the Gouda glass painting art was founded by monks in the local monasteries. Willem wrote the handwritten "Goudsche Arcadia" that served as inspiration for Ignatius Walvis' Description of Gouda Tomberg felt that the brothers Wouter and Dirk Crabeth were the greatest masters of the art of glass painting that died with them.
According to the RKD Tomberg made the stained glass windows of the Gouda Lutheran church.
He died in Gouda in 1712.
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18th century Dutch writers (1670-1712)
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