Jan Ariens Duif

Jan Ariens Duif (Gouda, 1617 - Gouda, 1649) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

He was taken to the Gouda orphanage at age nine, where his drawing talent was discovered and ten years later he painted the regents with himself next to the resident father. He was a student of his uncle, Wouter Crabeth II.[1] He married in 1647 but died only two years later. His religious paintings hang in the Gouda Lutheran church and in the Catherina Convent museum in Utrecht.

According to Houbraken, he died of a sudden illness, along with two colleagues; Jan Govertsz Verbyl and Aert van Waes (who had just returned from Italy).[2]

References

  1. ^ Johannes Adriaensz. Duif in the RKD
  2. ^ Jan Duive biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature