Johan Starrenberg
Johan Starrenberg (c1650, Groningen – after 1691, The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
[edit]According to Houbraken he painted rough portraits that were "better seen from a distance", and enjoyed the patronage of the Stadtholder of Friesland, Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz.[1] He was a friend of the painter Jacob de Wolf who commit suicide in 1685.
According to the RKD he was in Groningen from 1670 to 1681, and in 1681 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague, where he was also registered from 1690 to 1691.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ (in Dutch) Johan Starrenberg Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Johan Starrenberg in the RKD
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