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Arnold Van Houbraken

Arnold Van Houbraken (1660 - 1719) was active/lived in Holland.  Arnold Houbraken is known for Painting, sculpture, engraving and illustration.

An art writer, painter, draughtsman, engraver, book illustrator, Arnold Houbraken, at the age of nine, became an assistant in the shop of the Dordrecht merchant in twine, Johannes de Haan.  His patron, being himself trained in painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), gave the young boy the opportunity to copy drawings and prints.

In 1672, Houbraken began his apprenticeship as a painter, first for a short time as a pupil of the landscape painter Willem van Drielenburch (c. 1625-after 1677).  In 1673-1674, he spent nine months in the studio of the portraitist Jacobus Levecq (1634-1675).  Eventually, between 1674 and 1678, he worked in the studio of his master, Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), who taught him classicist art theory and who at that time was writing his Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst (Introduction to the Advanced School of Painting, 1678).

In 1678, Houbraken became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St Luke   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2336 characters.]  Artist bio

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