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Abraham Jansz Begeyn

Abraham Jansz Begeyn (1637 - 1697) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland, Germany.  Abraham Begeyn is known for Town views, Italianate landscapes and seaport painting, tapestry design.

Abraham Begeyn was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. In 1655 he became a member of the Guild of St Luke in Leiden. He was registered in Amsterdam in 1672, but the following year, or a little later, he was recorded in London, where he painted at Ham House, Surrey, together with Willem van de Velde the younger and Dirck van den Bergen. In 1681 he was in The Hague, where he had a student called P. Romburch and where two years later he became a member of the painters' confraternity Pictura. From 1688 Begeyn was court painter to Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (later Frederick I, King of Prussia). The Elector commissioned him to draw views of his country estates and of villages and towns in Germany. Begeyn thus traveled extensively in Germany, visiting Halberstadt, Minden, Bielefeld, Wesel, Cleves and Regenstein.

Begeyn lived at a time when there was a great public interest in topographical pictures, and he is mainly known for his views of villages and towns and for his Italian   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3422 characters.]  Artist bio

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