Portret van een onbekende jonge vrouw, in ovaal
Godfried Schalcken
1653 - 1706
Medium
paper
Dimensions
164; 136
About this artwork
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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...