Jongeman met een hoed met brede rand
Godfried Schalcken
1630 - 1700
Medium
etching
Dimensions
86; 107
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso linksonder, gestempeld: Lugt 240
About the Artist
Godfried Schalcken · 1643–1706
Studied with Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht in 1656 and Gerrit Dou in Leiden. He returned to Dordrecht in 1665, where he was a standard-bearer with the arquebusiers. In 1679 he married Françoise van Dimen, of Breda, with whom he had seven children, six of whom died young. He was a guild member in The Hague in 1691, before leaving to spend several years in London, attracted by the success of h...