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Gerbrand van den eeckhout biography of william

          What was the dutch golden age and what led to its decline

        1. What was the dutch golden age and what led to its decline
        2. Rembrandts
        3. Aert de gelder
        4. How did rembrandt die
        5. De gelder

          6. Aert de gelder!

          Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

          Dutch painter (1621–1674)

          Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 August 1621 – 29 September 1674[1][2]) was a Dutch Golden Agepainter and a favourite student of Rembrandt.[3] He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

          Biography

          Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a jeweller, a Mennonite who fled after 1585 from Antwerp to the north. In 1631 his mother died.

          Rembrandt biography

          His father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of a founder of the Delft chamber of the Dutch East India Company.

          Arnold Houbraken records Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt. A fellow pupil to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but regarded as inferior to them in skill and experience; he soon assumed Rembrandt's manner with such success that his pictures were confused with those of his master.

          Eeckhout does not merely copy the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, the Jewish dress and the