A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . ) were formerly in the Orleans Gallery and are engravedin Galerie dti Palais Royal, in. BREKELENKAM. Quiryn Gerritsz VAN Brekelenkamor Brekelenkemp. Dutch School, about 1625—1668. Genre painter. Born probably at Swammerdam near Leyden. Said to have been a pupilof Gerard Dou; in 1648 he entered the Guild of St Luke at Leyden, in which city his workinglife was spent. Brekelenkam belonged to the Roman Catholic confession; was twice married,in 1648 to Maria Carle, and in 16
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . ) were formerly in the Orleans Gallery and are engravedin Galerie dti Palais Royal, in. BREKELENKAM. Quiryn Gerritsz VAN Brekelenkamor Brekelenkemp. Dutch School, about 1625—1668. Genre painter. Born probably at Swammerdam near Leyden. Said to have been a pupilof Gerard Dou; in 1648 he entered the Guild of St Luke at Leyden, in which city his workinglife was spent. Brekelenkam belonged to the Roman Catholic confession; was twice married,in 1648 to Maria Carle, and in 1656 to Elizabeth van Beaumont. He painted scenesof peasant and bourgeois life, and also a few religious pieces, with fine observation and adexterous hand. His style has resemblances both to that of Gerard Dou and of Adriaenvan Ostade: in choice of subjects he avoided the usual coarseness of his Leyden, 1668. I. 404. Cottage interior. An old woman wearing spectacles,a flat black bonnet, and a broad white collar, sits on a chair in fullface, and combs the hair of a fair-haired young girl seated on a stool. 43^
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