Utente:Voxfax/Jacob van Swanenburg
Jacob van Swanenburg (Template:IPA-nl;[1] 1571 in Leiden – 1638 in Leiden), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was the oldest of the three sons of Isaac van Swanenburg and a master of the young Rembrandt.
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According to Houbraken, Swanenburg learned to paint from his father, who had been a pupil of Frans Floris.[2]
According to Houbraken and the Netherlands Institute for Art History, Swanenburg left for Venice ca. in 1591, was in Naples for ten years from 1596 to 1615 and married there.[3] He returned to Leiden without his family, and then two years later in 1617 made another trip back to Naples to move his household definitely back to Leiden, where he became a successful painter.[2][3] He is registered as a master of the young Rembrandt in 1620 and died in 1638 while on a trip to Utrecht.[3]
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- ^ In isolation, van is pronounced Template:IPA-nl.
- ^ a b Template:Verify source
- ^ a b c Jacob van Swanenburg in the RKD