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Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - 1662) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland.  Adriaen Venne is known for Allegory, genre and portrait painting, book illustration, satire.

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 - November 12, 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age* painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires and a versifier.

Van de Venne was born in Delft. According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden. He learned to paint from the master goldsmith and painter Simon de Valk, and afterwards learned engraving from Jeronimus van Diest, a good painter of grisailles.* He then moved to Middelburg in 1614 where he was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

His political painting Fishers of Men, 1614, is an ironic commentary on the Catholic and Protestant troubles of the Eighty Years War that split the border between the Northern from the Southern Netherlands along the Schelde river, very close to his home in Middleburg. When he painted this picture, the Twelve Years' Truce was in effect since 1609. The influence of Jan Bruegh   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2045 characters.]  Artist bio

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