Albert Jansz Vinckenbrinck

Portrait of the Amsterdam sculptor Albert Jansz. Vinckenbrinck by the brothers Cornelis & Pieter Holsteyn.

Albert Jansz Vinckenbrink (1604, Spaarndam – 1665, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age sculptor in Amsterdam.

Biography

Relief in sandstone from the Amsterdam poorhouse; registering the poor at the almshouse

According to the RKD he was a sculptor who learned from his father and became the father of the sculptors Jan, Hendrik, and Abraham Vinckenbrinck.^[1] He married Geertruyt Collaert.^[1] He made the pulpit for the Nieuwe kerk, and a sketch of this is in the portrait made of him by the Holsteyn brothers. That print claims he was a "sculptor of the city of Amsterdam".^[1] According to the Amsterdam Museum he made the statues of David and Goliath now in their café.^[2]

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