Willem van Drielenburg

Willem van Drielenburg (1632, Utrecht – c. 1687, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Arnold Houbraken he was a pupil of Abraham Bloemaert who later took to landscape painting in the manner of Jan Both.[1] He came to live in Dordrecht in 1668 and Houbraken became his pupil in the Rampjaar 1672.[1] Houbraken didn't learn much that year, because the unrest in the city was such that Drieleburg was constantly sending him out to hear the latest news.[1] He was a very productive painter, who could even make small grisaille landscapes in brown ink or red chalk by candlelight.[1]

According to the RKD he was a landscape painter who became the teacher of Houbraken's later art teacher Wilhelmus Beurs.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d (in Dutch) Willem van Drillenburg Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ Willem van Drielenburg in the RKD